Brits face pay-per-mile driving charges in eco-drive: Electric cars will create an £8BILLION tax black hole from loss of fuel duty, say green tsars - who also want to tax your holidays to stop you fly

Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, said: 'Labour's energy policies leave little chance of achieving the CCC's vision.

'The Government's statist approach will only make electricity more expensive by squeezing out competition and paying whatever it takes to hit their arbitrary 2030 clean power target.

'It risks exacerbating our nation's woes, holding back our nation and Net Zero.'

The Government has to decide on the level of cuts it will commit to for the period 2038-2042, which is the seventh in a series of five-year 'carbon budgets', and put it to a vote in Parliament by the end of June next year.

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