Penny Mordaunt pledges to create ‘millions of green jobs’ if elected Tory leader

Penny Mordaunt at the first Tory leadership TV debate on Friday. She says switching to more renewable energy would ‘rapidly enhance the UK’s energy security’. Photograph: Tom Nicholson/Rex/Shutterstock

Penny Mordaunt has told Conservative critics of net zero that “environmentalism and conservatism go hand in hand” as she vowed to create “millions of green jobs” if elected leader.

The MP for Portsmouth North is the only Tory leadership candidate so far to properly set out views on climate change and the environment.