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#LondonCalling: The public learns of the bill for Net-Zero. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

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#LondonCalling: The public learns of the bill for Net-Zero. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bc2c8ab8-35bd-11ee-a54b-14a9a87cf1a8?shareToken=7161c97af63f292252195bb626c47c95


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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or

0:16.8

serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone.

0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:35.2

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batch with my friend and colleague Joseph Sturmberg of

0:39.1

the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. He writes political economics.

0:43.2

He also interprets for me the front page of the telegraph in London times the daily mail.

0:49.0

The UK politics are a miracle, the way they get through all of this. And then every once in a while

0:55.4

I cease on something in the headlines that I don't understand whatsoever. And this one has been

1:01.4

with us for months, and Joe has explained it before, but I get lost. Joe heat pumps and gas boilers

1:08.2

and oil boilers. This looks to be a red line in the UK, mandating by government. What the heck

1:16.7

is going on? Well, I think the big story that's going on here that this fits into is this very

1:22.5

rapid political rethink of the UK's net zero commitments. And this is happening because there

1:28.8

was a by-election for a parliamentary seat a few weeks ago that produced a surprising result

1:35.9

that everyone understands turned on environmental policy. And certainly the details are a little

1:41.7

broke, so I won't go into that here. But the key point is that both the governing conservative

1:47.4

and the opposition labor party came away from that, convinced that voters are losing patience

1:52.6

with some of these very expensive environmental policies. And I think that that is now causing

1:59.4

a lot of concern for the Tories over this issue of heat pumps, because I think that the

2:04.4

signature element of their net zero policy program has been that they wanted households

2:10.7

to change the way that they heat themselves to stop burning oil or natural gas for central

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