Depressed and branded ‘zealots’: Tory conference attacks on net zero alarm green-leaning MPs

The energy security and net zero secretary, Claire Coutinho, attacked so-called ‘net zero zealots’. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

At Conservative party conference this year, green politics is under attack.

From the energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, attacking so-called “net zero zealots” to Sunak’s watering down of environmental policies, and the resurgence of the likes of David Frost, Nigel Farage and Jacob-Rees Mogg, it is not in vogue to be green.