Kemi crashes Net Zero. Will Starmer be next?

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

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In dramatic fashion, The Sun reports that a leaked government memo claims that the UK's race to reduce carbon emissions could trigger a financial crash. Kemi Badenoch also ditched her party's commitment to net zero by 2050 this week, insisting that the target was now "impossible". So if the cross party consensus on Britain's climate targets are over - could Starmer's so far steadfast commitment to the green revolution come under pressure?

Later, as Steve Bannon suggests a plan is being cooked up that would see Donald Trump running for a THIRD presidential term, what would it mean for American democracy - and what would it mean for JD Vance, the Vice President already taking up pole position as the MAGA successor?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:12.7	We cannot ignore net zero. It's not just important for the climate, but it's absolutely critical to lowering jobs.
0:23.9	Sorry, lowering jobs. I correct absolutely critical to lowering jobs. Sorry, lowering, I correct that,
0:31.6	lowering bills, creating. So net zero lowering the number of jobs. That was Lucy Powell, the leader of the House of Commons speaking in Westminster this morning with a Freudian slip that kind of is interesting.
0:40.1	Because now that the Tories have backed away from Net Zero,
0:44.4	does it open up a space for Kirstama's Labour to do something similar?
0:49.0	Net Zero has been a central part of our politics now for over a decade.
0:53.7	Until this week, a fragile but
0:56.3	consistent consensus existed between the two main parties on the necessity of net zero. That has
1:02.8	now gone. And in an era dominated by war is the pursuit to end climate change, gone with it.
1:10.3	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:14.5	The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And in a little bit, we've got something for you that you'll just love.
1:21.1	The possibility of Donald Trump serving a third term in the White House. Yes, one of his closest
1:27.4	acolytes is working on a way to kind of
1:30.9	breach the US Constitution and get Donald Trump to come back again. But first we're going to talk
1:37.0	about a change that is happening to our politics, which is a little bit beneath the surface,
1:41.2	but potentially very, very important in the long term. And that is the shifting politics on net zero, which isn't confined to the Conservative Party. It's wider than
1:50.2	that. But the Conservative Party has put it in lights this week because Camille Bade not made a speech
1:54.4	where she marked quite abrupt departure with her predecessors and indeed the government that she
2:00.6	was a part of when
2:01.5	she said that net zero by 2050 is impossible. She said that her predecessors, her own prime
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