The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has pledged to suspend green levies on energy bills and look for “better ways to deliver our net zero targets”. Despite a record-breaking heatwave plus wildfires, droughts and floods worldwide, neither contender for the Conservative Party leadership felt the urge, as David Cameron once did, to hug a husky during the summer leadership campaign.
In her acceptance speech, Truss made clear her first priority is “dealing with people’s energy bills, but also dealing with the long-term issues we have on energy supply”. Many read this as a green light for licensing new oil and gas extraction and perhaps ending the moratorium on fracking.
