Ed Miliband says he is confident government will meet its target of net zero by 2050
Good morning,
After a disastrous week for the Labour government, with many saying the party have abandoned their core values by cutting disability benefits, Ed Miliband is trying to shift focus on to the government’s carbon emissions targets.
The government is “absolutely up for the fight” over net zero, Miliband said, as he accused the Conservatives and Reform of “a total desertion and betrayal” of future generations by failing to tackle the climate crisis.
Miliband told BBC’s Today programme that he is confident the government will meet its target of net zero by 2050.
In other news …
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A YouGov poll found that 61% of people either strongly supported or somewhat supported the government’s commitment to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, while 24% said they somewhat opposed or strongly opposed it and 15% said the didn’t know.
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Even among those who voted Conservative at the last general election, 52% supported the net zero commitment, 38% opposed it and 11% didn’t know.
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The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, accused the NHS of acting in an “immoral” way by depriving needy countries of homegrown health professionals. Brexit has left the NHS increasingly dependent on doctors and nurses from poor “red list” countries, from which the World Health Organization says it is wrong to recruit.
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High-profile celebrities including Sir Stephen Fry, Brian Cox and Stanley Tucci have criticised the government’s £5bn cuts to disability benefits, calling the plans “shameful” and “a stain on this country”. Fry said the cuts burden should fall on the best-off in society, rather than hitting vulnerable disabled people: “The social security system should be rooted in justice and compassion, fairness and need. It’s not too late to rethink this.”
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More than 9,000 unpaid carers looking after ill and disabled loved ones have become the latest to be hit with carer’s allowance overpayment debts in the past year, prompting calls for ministers to suspend the controversial practice. In total, 144,000 carers now have outstanding repayments after falling foul of drastic “cliff-edge” rules limiting the amount they can earn from part-time jobs while still claiming carer’s allowance benefit.
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Gaby Hinsliff
My colleague Gaby Hinsliff argues in her column that after Keir Starmer watched the Netflix show Adolescence, a drama that highlights youth violence and growing misogyny among young boys, he now needs to act.
Hinsliff argues that young people’s siloed information bubbles driven by manipulative algorithms need to be better regulated, and there needs to be better support for families.
Here’s an extract:
Though talk of misogynistic “manosphere” influencers such as Andrew Tate hovers over the storyline, this isn’t really a story of radicalisation. What it skewers is the feeling of growing up very publicly in a world where sending nudes risks them instantly being shared round the class and everyone automatically films playground fights on their phones, and how that intensifies dangerous feelings of shame and rejection in immature minds. Over half of young women now say they’re frightened of their male peers, according to a sad little survey for the Lost Boys project at the Centre for Social Justice thinktank. What’s not always obvious is that beneath their anger, boys are often equally frightened of them…
Ed Miliband says he is confident government will meet its target of net zero by 2050
Good morning,
After a disastrous week for the Labour government, with many saying the party have abandoned their core values by cutting disability benefits, Ed Miliband is trying to shift focus on to the government’s carbon emissions targets.
The government is “absolutely up for the fight” over net zero, Miliband said, as he accused the Conservatives and Reform of “a total desertion and betrayal” of future generations by failing to tackle the climate crisis.
Miliband told BBC’s Today programme that he is confident the government will meet its target of net zero by 2050.
In other news …
-
A YouGov poll found that 61% of people either strongly supported or somewhat supported the government’s commitment to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, while 24% said they somewhat opposed or strongly opposed it and 15% said the didn’t know.
-
Even among those who voted Conservative at the last general election, 52% supported the net zero commitment, 38% opposed it and 11% didn’t know.
-
The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, accused the NHS of acting in an “immoral” way by depriving needy countries of homegrown health professionals. Brexit has left the NHS increasingly dependent on doctors and nurses from poor “red list” countries, from which the World Health Organization says it is wrong to recruit.
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High-profile celebrities including Sir Stephen Fry, Brian Cox and Stanley Tucci have criticised the government’s £5bn cuts to disability benefits, calling the plans “shameful” and “a stain on this country”. Fry said the cuts burden should fall on the best-off in society, rather than hitting vulnerable disabled people: “The social security system should be rooted in justice and compassion, fairness and need. It’s not too late to rethink this.”
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More than 9,000 unpaid carers looking after ill and disabled loved ones have become the latest to be hit with carer’s allowance overpayment debts in the past year, prompting calls for ministers to suspend the controversial practice. In total, 144,000 carers now have outstanding repayments after falling foul of drastic “cliff-edge” rules limiting the amount they can earn from part-time jobs while still claiming carer’s allowance benefit.
