This is the Guardian.

Today, why is Rishi Sunak ripping up the UK's net zero plans?

It was smooth. It was polished.

Rishi Sunak was totally in control, except...

Today was chaotic. This was not really supposed to be the day that Rishi Sunak was going to

announce his great U-turn on green plans. We thought that was probably going to be Friday,

and I think the Prime Minister would have liked a few more days just to pitch roll as they say

in political circles, get people ready for the announcement, tell people on his side what the

lines to take were, figure out what he was going to tell business, but he was forced into this

speech, partially because everybody here in Westminster found out about it, the BBC was the first to

report it, the Guardian had it very quickly afterwards. On Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister

delivered a grand standing speech on the UK's response to the climate crisis, on what he called

the wider mission. I went down to the Guardian's office in Parliament to watch it all unfold.

The atmosphere in Westminster has been not quite fee-briled, but it was excited, and peace

were supposed to be returning to their constituencies, but instead many of them had to stay in London

or were hauled back because this is a major, major policy speech by the Prime Minister,

and he had to make it slightly on the hoof, and that has caused an absolute scramble to the extent

that many people were responding to the speech, even before he made it. But Sunak was unequivocal.

If we continue down this path, we risk losing the consent of the British people.

He said, our current climate policies were unaffordable.

We seem to have defaulted to an approach which will impose unacceptable costs on hard-press

British families, costs that no one was ever really told about, and which may not actually be

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