Conservative Party

The Conservative leader will this week promise to reinstate the policy of maximising oil and gas production in the North Sea - but simply ignoring climate risks and the global clean energy transition does not make them go away

New YouGov survey confirms there is still overwhelming support for expanding the UK's clean energy infrastructure and a raft of other climate policies

As leading lights of the Conservative Party struggle to advocate for ambitious UK leadership on net zero, where should right-leaning environmentalists look for their new political home?

Greens and Lib Dems enjoy strong showing, but Nigel Farage dominates headlines on a night that saw major advances for the populist and climate sceptic right

Greens predict they are on course for record-breaking nights, but Reform grab headlines with by-election and mayoral victory

The government's net zero strategy is accelerating, regardless of what anonymous sources keep suggesting to the contrary

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: March 2025

The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move

The Conservative leader has declared the UK's net zero by 2050 target "impossible", sparking fury among climate campaigners, business groups, and some of her own party

Conservative leader to argue that reaching net zero by 2050 is 'impossible', prompting critics to accuse her of 'abandoning science and voters' and 'giving up on the economic opportunity of the century'