{"id":348527,"date":"2024-10-23T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348527"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:33:06","slug":"robert-jenrick-i-would-tear-up-unconservative-climate-change-act-as-tory-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348527","title":{"rendered":"Robert Jenrick: \u201cI Would Tear up Unconservative Climate Change Act as Tory Leader\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Robert Jenrick has promised to tear up the Climate Change Act if he becomes Tory leader and eventually Prime Minister. The Telegraph<\/em> has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He has said he will scrap major pieces of Blair and Brown era legislation including the Climate Change Act, Equality Act and Human Rights Act under a \u201cGreat Reform Act\u201d if he makes it to No. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His plans include scrapping carbon budgets and unburdening businesses of equality laws which have been criticised for driving positive discrimination and political correctness in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He described carbon budgets as \u201cSoviet-style five-year plans\u201d and claimed they impede the building of critical national infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would also take aim at the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act and section 6 of the Human Rights Act, which gives the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) force in British law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe next Conservative government must do better to deliver a genuinely conservative country. We must repeal and amend the Climate Change Act, Equality Act and Human Rights Act and restore decision-making to ministers accountable to parliament,\u201d Mr Jenrick told the Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused the Prime Minister of \u201cplanning a second disastrous Blairite revolution\u201d and suggested he could repeal laws brought forward by the current Labour Government, including a mooted Race Equality Act that was included in Labour\u2019s manifesto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also pledged to scrap new quangos promised in Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s manifesto, including Great British Energy, the Nationwide Climate Export Hubs and an Office for Value for Money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Jenrick argued the Public Sector Equality Duty has \u201cled to recruitment based on identity, not merit\u201d and that \u201cthe chief beneficiary has been EDI consultants and those that peddle divisive and false narratives about Britain\u2019s past\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On carbon budgets, the Tory leadership candidate said: \u201cIt is ludicrous to set out soviet-style five-year plans at a sectoral level which specify where you plan to reduce carbon emissions. The state does not have sufficient understanding of the economy to do that well. It\u2019s impeding us from building the critical national infrastructure we need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Jenrick\u2019s plan is inspired by the Great Reform Act of 1832 which expanded democracy and swept away corruption in the British political system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop Press:<\/strong> In another crowd-pleasing intervention, Jenrick has called for whole-life sentences for people convicted of grooming underage girls for sex. The Telegraph<\/em> has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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