Kemi Badenoch says Britain must 'get real' and scrap 'impossible' Net Zero 2050 target to avoid heaping costs on struggling families

Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, whose membership includes almost half of Mrs Badenoch's MPs and 500 councillors, said she had 'jumped the gun'. 

'It is a mistake to have preempted the policy review by deciding that Net Zero by 2050 isn't achievable,' he said.

'The target is based not on wishful thinking, but the scientific imperative of stopping the worsening impacts of climate change and preventing unaffordable costs. 

'Ditching the target will undermine private enterprise and capital driving the energy transition and alienate voters worried about their children and grandchildren's inheritance.'

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