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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jon Stone

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch performs double U-turn on net zero

PA Media

Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has performed a double U-turn on whether she supports climate change targets, backing and then rowing back from the policy.

Ms Badenoch, a right-winger who has focused her campaign on culture war issues, attracted criticism after she described net zero targets as "unilateral economic disarmament" early in the contest.

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