London, 18 March 2025 – The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has welcomed Kemi Badenoch’s speech on her self-declared ‘Net Zero scepticism’ and the need for climate policy reforms.
Dr Benny Peiser, the outgoing director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said:
“Nigel Lawson would have been delighted with Kemi Badenoch’s excellent speech which could have been drafted by himself almost verbatim.
“For more than 15 years, ever since the late Lord Lawson and I launched the GWPF, we have been warning MPs and ministers relentlessly that Britain’s unilateral climate policy will inevitably cause rising energy prices, leading to the rising cost of living, dwindling manufacturing and international decline.
“As predicted, these costs have been rising sharply. As a result, there has been growing public opposition and hostility to ever more expensive energy bills, deindustrialisation and the subsequent cost of living crisis.
“Kemi Badenoch’s announcement of the need for radical policy reforms may be 15 years late, but it’s not too late to turn Britain’s economic and societal future around.”
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