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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Rish! gaslights the UK with North Sea plan while the world burns

Rishi Sunak with the secretary of state for Scotland, Alister Jack, during a visit to the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead.
Rishi Sunak with the secretary of state for Scotland, Alister Jack, during a visit to the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Some would call it shameful. The reckless abandoning of the UK’s net zero commitments. The torching of environmental policies. All at a time when larger areas of southern Europe were suffering extreme temperatures. Rishi Sunak wouldn’t. He is a man with no sense of shame. Just the bizarre belief in his own infallibility. The absolute entitlement of the Boy King. Brought up to think he could do no wrong.

It’s week two of the Conservatives’ latest reinvention. Managed decline just isn’t cutting it any more. The country can’t take any more of a government whose only promise is to screw things up just a little slower than before. We’re on our knees already.

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