Kemi Badenoch would delay Net Zero target for UK

Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said she would be prepared to delay the UK’s target to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as the UK experiences one of the hottest days on record. Speaking to TalkTV’s The News Desk, Badenoch said if she became Prime Minister, she would tackle climate change in a way ‘that doesn’t bankrupt our economy’.

The former Equalities Minister also told TalkTV that she did not believe that the Tory leadership contest had become nasty and said many of the candidates were friends but it was right that they were having disagreements in public.

In the wide-rangeing interview with Tom Newton Dunn, Badenoch also addressed the attention surrounding her views on the transgender debate; set out her stall for why she thinks she has proved so popular with Conservative members and shared her experience of being the only woman working on a building site with 300 men.