Rishi Sunak faces a tough challenge as Prime Minister
(Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)When Liz Truss resigned as prime minister last week, climate campaigners breathed the smallest sigh of relief. While the next leader of the Conservative Party was not to be announced for another four days, it would be a tall order for the future prime minister to be any more controversial on climate issues than their predecessor.
Truss’s 45 days at the helm of Britain were a whirlwind for climate policy. Famously dismissing solar panels as “paraphernalia”, once in office, she immediately moved to outlaw solar power on most farmland, overturned a widely supported ban on fracking, and scrapped hundreds of laws and subsidy schemes designed to protect nature.
