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Badenoch backpedals on Tories' own climate goals
Activists from Climate Resistance protest during Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's keynote speech at the Centre for Policy Studies conference at Guildhall in London, March 17, 2025

CAMPAIGNERS slammed Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after she argued against her party’s own climate goals today.

Announcing a “policy renewal" at a press conference in London, Ms Badenoch said that it would be “impossible” to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

The legally binding target was adopted by former Tory PM Theresa May.

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