British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he won’t be lectured to by countries with less ambitious climate targets than the UK,in a pitch to voters to elect his Conservative party for an unprecedented fifth term.
“I decided to take a pragmatic, proportionate, and realistic approach to reaching net zero,” Sunak said. “And I won’t take any lectures from other countries that have done far less than us.”The British government has been languishing in the polls after last year’s political turmoil, when the party changed prime ministers three times in two months.
In his most personal speech to date, he said he was proud to be the country’s first British-Asian prime ministership but even prouder that it was “just not a big deal”.Last week, Sunak’s firebrand Home Secretary Suella Braverman told an American audience that multiculturalism had failed – but Sunak said the UK was the most multi-ethnic country on Earth and his own selection as a Conservative MP was proof.
He scrapped a major high-speed rail project that was to connect London to Manchester and said the funding would be allocated instead to rail, road and public transport projects across the north, where “red wall” voters abandoned Labour for Boris Johnson at the last election.
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