23 h. ago Kemi Badenoch sets out Tory plans to deport 150,000 migrants a year with Trump

A Removals Force modelled on the ICE agency would be given £1.6 billion and ‘sweeping new powers’ including facial recognition without warning to spot illegal immigrants

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31 h. ago 'I'll deport 750,000 illegal migrants': Kemi Badenoch vows to set up Trump

The new Trumpian unit is the most eye-catching measure in Kemi Badenoch's Borders Plan, which the Tory leader hopes will revive her flagging political fortunes.

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39 h. ago Majority of Tory members oppose Kemi Badenoch’s net zero plans

More than half of Tory members said they support Britain’s target of reaching net zero by 2050

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on climate policy: Britain needs clean power, not culture wars | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewablesLet’s scrap Britain’s successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the message of Kemi Badenoch’s new energy strategy. The Conservative leader proposes to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act in favour of a plan to “maximise oil and gas extraction”, and remove all legally binding carbon targets. It’s pitched as pragmatism. But it’s a lurch into ideological self-harm.Britain’s energy problem isn’t its climate legislation, which is admired globally, backed by industry and supported by the public. It’s that this country remains too dependent on volatile fossil fuels. Emissions targets are not the reason for high bills. It is gas prices, which skyrocketed after Russia invaded Ukraine. They set UK electricity prices. In Europe, they don’t – that’s why bills are lower...

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3 d. ago Tories at war over Badenoch’s plan to axe Climate Change Act as Theresa May brands it a ‘catastrophic mistake’

Baroness May issued a stark warning over Kemi Badenoch’s plans to repeal the Climate Change Act

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3 d. ago Tory war of words erupts as Theresa May hits out at Kemi Badenoch's 'catastrophic' climate plan

The Tory war of words erupted as the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she would axe the world-leading Climate Change Act first introduced by the last Labour government

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