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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations

Ed Miliband close-up
Miliband has said his statement will be a chance for anti-environmental voices in parliament to be ‘held to account’. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters

Ed Miliband is to explicitly call out politicians who reject net zero policies for betraying future generations in an unprecedented update to parliament about the state of the climate crisis, which he is calling “an exercise in radical truth-telling”.

With Reform UK proposing to scrap all net zero measures and even questioning the science behind climate change, and the Conservatives ditching environmental targets, Miliband hopes to regain the initiative with a stark warning to MPs.

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