If Rishi Sunak put brakes on net zero, it could see him back on the road to election victory

Just net ready

THE evidence is getting more overwhelming by the day.

Britain simply isn’t ready to outlaw the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, five years earlier than the EU and the US.

But don’t just take our word for it: listen to the Government’s own ministers.

Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps was yesterday forced to admit the National Grid is hopelessly underpowered for the challenge of charging up millions more electric vehicles.

And Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch is warning — along with car manufacturers — that an arbitrary requirement for 22 per cent of all car sales to be electric by NEXT YEAR is risking jobs and investment.

Yesterday, Rishi Sunak suggested he wasn’t minded to call a General Election until late next year because he has “a lot to get on with”.

Still lagging a long way behind Sir Keir Starmer in the polls, this is certainly true.

But, as ex-Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg argues, if the PM were to back The Sun and put the brakes on net zero as part of his 2024 election manifesto, it would be popular with voters.

And it could well get him back on the road to victory.

Falkland farce

IT seems that no corner of the once Great British Empire is safe from the march of wokery.

Since 1833 the hardy folk of the Falkland Islands have managed to successfully govern themselves.

Not even the intervention of the murderous military junta of Argentina could knock them from their singular way of life.

But now a right-on pen-pusher in Whitehall has decided Port Stanley must have its own equality adviser.

For £43,000 he, she or no doubt “they” will ensure that the Islands’ inhabitants are not being discriminated against.

It is true that the Falklands’ population has swelled by nearly a third in the last ten years thanks to immigration from Chile and the Philippines.

But how much discriminatory unfairness can take place on a daily basis among a population which at just 3,662 is outnumbered by sheep by 136 to one?

Costa barmy

YESTERDAY we told how Brits were queueing up before dawn to beat the Germans to sun loungers in Spain.

But it seems the sunbed wars are seriously hotting up.

Vicious towel turf wars are now breaking out right across the Med — even among the Brits themselves.

After the miserable summer we’re having, who can blame them?