Reform’s Richard Tice wants to end decades of UK climate action
Zero: The Climate Race
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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Summary
Reform UK is currently the most popular party in Britain. If voted into government, it wants to end all subsidies for renewable energy, ban battery energy storage, end net-zero targets, drill for more oil and gas in the North Sea and encourage fracking on British soil.
This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice about the party’s climate and energy plans, and why he calls it “net stupid zero.”
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| 0:30.2 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati. This week, Inside Reforms Climate Plans. British politics is in a state of upheaval. |
| 0:50.6 | The incumbent Labour Party is unpopular and the Conservative Party, which for the past 100 years, |
| 0:55.8 | has been its major opponent, isn't doing much better. |
| 1:00.0 | The most popular party right now is Reform UK, a party of right-wing populists formed by many |
| 1:06.5 | of the same people who successfully campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union in 2016. |
| 1:12.7 | In local elections earlier this month, Reform won the most seats. |
| 1:17.8 | As a result, the fate of Prime Minister Kirstama hangs in the balance, with many expecting |
| 1:22.3 | leadership challenges from within the Labour Party. |
| 1:26.1 | While the next scheduled national election is not until 2029, it could come much sooner. |
| 1:31.3 | If reform does end up running Britain, it would be the first time in the modern era |
| 1:36.3 | that the country's government explicitly opposes policies to limit climate change. |
| 1:42.3 | Since the late 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, the UK has been a supporter of |
| 1:48.1 | climate policy and often one of the countries pushing for more ambitious actions to reduce |
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