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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Labour accuses Reform of threatening almost one million jobs with net zero plans

Richard Tice has pledged to ‘wage war’ on net zero if Reform UK is elected (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Wire)

Reform UK’s “war” on net zero would cost almost one million jobs, the energy minister has claimed, as Labour steps up its attacks on Nigel Farage’s party over green power.

Michael Shanks said Reform’s opposition to net zero amounted to a “war on jobs”, saying working people “would lose jobs and opportunities if Farage’s party was ever allowed to impose its anti-jobs, anti-growth ideology on the country”.

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