Grant Shapps sparks fresh Tory row over net zero

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Energy secretary Grant Shapps has warned senior Conservatives pushing for Rishi Sunak to ditch green policies that the government’s net zero pledge remains vital. “We can’t have global security without net zero,” Mr Shapps told Politico. Net zero sceptics want the PM to build on the success of the anti-Ulez by-election result in Uxbridge by scrapping Boris Johnson’s policy to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030. open image in gallery Sunak is accused of being ‘uninterested’ in fulfilling Boris Johnson’s climate policies He also faces a rebellion on the de facto ban on oil boilers from 2026, which mostly affects those living in off-grid homes in the countryside. Former energy minister Chris Skidmore, who led the government’s net zero review, said the decision to grant 100 new fossil fuel licences was “the wrong decision at the wrong time” and warned the PM that he risked being on the “wrong side of history”.