If Only, Mel, If Only.

The end of the climate change obsession?

Don't hold your breath. But small signs of a sea-change are visible.

MELANIE PHILLIPS JUL 24 ∙ PREVIEW

Three days ago, I compiled here a small checklist of policy goals that would define the true centre ground and give Rishi Sunak his best if not only chance of winning the next general election which, as things stand, he is projected to lose in a defeat of epic proportions.

One of those goals was to end “Net Zero” carbon emissions and challenge the “climate change” myth as damaging, exaggerated and untrue. All over Europe, politicians are tumbling to the realisation that the public are in revolt against the climate change obsession. This is not only making them poorer, colder and having to drive electric cars that regularly break down but is also totally pointless, because China and Russia are still burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow (which without doubt there will be, regardless of the climate hysterics) and any British reduction in “carbon footprint” would have negligible impact in preventing The End Of The World. 

Now Prime Minister Sunak has indicated that he will scale back Net Zero. Forgive me for sounding churlish, but I’m not holding my breath for an outbreak of sanity...