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

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Kemi Badenoch addresses the Conservative conference in Birmingham, outlining policies from her 100-page document the Right Way.
Kemi Badenoch addresses the Conservative conference in Birmingham, outlining policies from her 100-page document the Right Way. Photograph: Gary Roberts/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet.

The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech.

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