The former Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has called on her successor, Rishi Sunak, to ditch all net zero targets in order to win the General Election 2024.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Ms Truss admitted she wants the UK Prime Minister to change course on issues such as going green, migration, and human rights laws, so that Conservative policies that “the public actually want” can be delivered.
Liz Truss said: “We need to change the way we are governed. And the contention in my book is unless we do that, we are not going to be able to deliver the conservative policies the public actually want such as controlling immigration, and getting rid of the impacts of net zero.”
Mr Sunak remains committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and has taken a more pragmatic approach than previous Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Theresa May.
The former Prime Minister’s stint in Downing Street only lasted 49 days and ended in humiliating fashion after the collapse of her so-called “mini-Budget” – but she has rejected the claims her fiscal event was responsible for a collapse in the Tories’ polling fortunes in the autumn of that year.
Ms Truss touched upon other crucial policies and went on to indicate her support for capping net migration at around 100,000. Speaking to the Telegraph, she added: “I’m in favour of immigration being around that level. I’m also in favour of more public say on what our levels of immigration should be. I think it should be debated in Parliament. I think there should be an annual discussion about it.”
Ms Truss has also ruled out running to be the leader of the country again even if Mr Sunak lost the general election. She said: “I am not. I am not planning to do that, no.”
Just this week, the Home Secretary hailed a 10 per cent fall in net migration, from a record high of 764,000, to 685,000 in the year to December and experts have said it is set to fall “possibly quite sharply, in the year ahead”.
