Among former UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s bolder policy statements was that taking the country to zero carbon emissions by 2050 would be an effortless endeavour.

“We can build back greener without so much as a hair shirt in sight,” he said in 2020. An important milestone in this regard was for the UK to be combustion engine free by 2035...

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