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Craig Mackinlay accuses PM of \u2018shameful acceptance of decline\u2019 and urges him to end damaging climate policies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Craig Mackinlay is chairman of the net zero scrutiny group of Tory MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Rishi Sunak<\/a> is putting Britain on a \u201cpath to ruin\u201d with his pursuit of net zero targets, the leader of an influential Tory group has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Mackinlay accused the Prime Minister of overseeing a \u201cshameful acceptance of decline\u201d in the\u00a0name of the green agenda<\/a>. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chairman of the 50-strong net zero scrutiny group<\/a> urged him to \u201cwake up\u201d and roll back damaging climate policies before it is too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His intervention, in an article for The Telegraph, comes as Mr Sunak faces pressure<\/a> from restless backbenchers on a number of fronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prime Minister has suffered several bruising rebellions on net zero, including one of the biggest of his premiership on electrical vehicle (EV) quotas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is set to face another mutiny within the next few weeks over plans to fine boiler companies that do not hit sales targets for heat pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Mackinlay said the news that Grangemouth Refinery, in Falkirk, will close next year<\/a> was the latest sign that green targets were backfiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bosses at the plant \u2013 one of only six remaining in the UK \u2013 have announced it will be turned into an import terminal for gas with 400 jobs being lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rush to net zero presents a severe threat to industries that have long been the lifeblood of our economy,\u201d Mr Mackinlay wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis shameful acceptance of decline from a Conservative government would previously have been unthinkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe cannot burden industries with excessive costs that foreign competitors avoid, whilst expecting them to continue operating in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNor can we recklessly pursue a transition to EVs by diktat, which ordinary consumers do not want, on the chimera of \u2018green jobs\u2019 tomorrow at the expense of real jobs today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo we continue down this path to ruin? Or do we finally wake up and prioritise true British energy security?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a rare recent intervention by Mr Mackinlay, who is recovering after suffering from sepsis<\/a> last year, which led to him being put into an induced coma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the pursuit of climate targets has seen Britain \u201clumber ourselves with some of the world\u2019s highest power costs whilst subsidising intermittent renewables\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur attitude towards energy security has bordered on dangerous indifference,\u201d he added, pointing to windfall taxes and the refusal to allow fracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Mackinlay added that the Grangemouth closure would mean importing more fuel from abroad, \u201csupporting foreign jobs whilst further hammering the UK\u2019s balance of payments\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the owners of the refinery had pointed to a decline in demand for oil-based fuels like petrol as one of the reasons for the closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ideological obsession for battery vehicles at all costs can therefore be directly tied to the survival of British industry,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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