Ditching green policies may not be the vote winner Sunak expects

The perception red wall' voters don't care about the climate crisis is not backed up by evidence

Rishi Sunak has made a calculation this week, after hanging on to Uxbridge in large part because of the Tories' anti-low emissions zone campaign, to row back on other green policies in the hope that it will create a dividing line with Labour at the next election.

Yet his own version of David Cameron's fateful decision to cut the green crap", which added 2.5bn to energy bills over the subsequent decade by ending onshore wind projects, solar subsidies and energy efficiency schemes, may not be the vote winner some Tories believe.