Labour said that pushing back the date of the phaseout of petrol and diesel cars would “raise costs for British families for billions of pounds because electric vehicles have cheaper lifetime costs”. In light of this, next, let’s have a look at the new confirmation made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, that is set to affect the government’s net zero promise. That’s coming up.
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00:00 Rishi Sunak has confirmed that the government has pushed back a ban on the sale of petrol
00:05 and diesel cars to 2035. This is a major change to plans that government had to reach net
00:10 zero by 2050. Prime Minister Sunak insisted he was acting to avoid a quote "public backlash"
00:16 by watering down efforts to tackle the climate crisis in an announcement that is facing fierce
00:21 criticism. In November 2020, Prime Minister of the time, Boris Johnson, announced the
00:26 sale of new cars and vans powered wholly by petrol or diesel would be banned by 2030.
00:32 On September 20th, Mr Sunak insisted the UK was already ahead of allies in reducing emissions
00:37 and could not impose unacceptable costs on British families. He went on to say, "The
00:42 risk here, to those of us who care about reaching net zero, as I do, is simple. If we continue
00:47 down this path, we risk losing the consent of the British people." In his speech, Mr
00:52 Sunak also said that households would never be forced to rip out their existing boiler
00:57 and replace it with a heat pump.