Britain will accelerate push to net zero, Starmer tells energy summit

Speech made clear prime minister sees renewable energy as core to UK's future prosperity and national security

Britain will go all out" for a low-carbon future and accelerate the push to net zero instead of slowing down as some have demanded, the prime minister said on Thursday.

In his strongest declaration yet of support for the net zero agenda, Sir Keir Starmer told a conference in London of more than 60 countries that tackling the climate crisis and bolstering energy security were in the DNA of my government".