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The Guardian - UK
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Gaia Vince

Missed all our net zero targets? No sweat. Rishi Sunak is 100% on it

Rishi Sunak holds up a green briefcase similar to the red budget box with COP21 printed on it.
As chancellor in 2021, Rishi Sunak announced plans to make Britain the world's first net zero financial services centre by 2050. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak is focused on the big stuff, or what he repeatedly insists are our priorities: boats, economy, boats, hospital waiting lists, boats, inflation, boats. The naysayers would uncharitably point out that he’s failing, to which I repeat the PM’s own words: “I’m totally, 100% on it and it’s going to be OK.”

In this Mr Big Stuff vein on Tuesday it was reported that Sunak and his home secretary, Suella Braverman, would be meeting sports supremos and senior police in an effort to save the great British sporting summer from climate activists. Later that day, three sexagenarian Just Stop Oil protesters brought a couple of tennis matches to a standstill by sprinkling confetti and jigsaw pieces on court. One sporting supremo, at least, was philosophical: ‘‘You don’t want things to be disrupted but at the same time they will really be disrupted with climate change,” said Gary Lineker. Advantage activists.

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