Exploring trends in UK public and elite attitudes to the clean energy transition

Watering down ambition offers no electoral advantage; a strong, progressive agenda on climate action remains broadly popular with the public.Elite opinion

Labour can confidently make climate policy a dividing line with the right, without fear of a voter backlash.

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

A think tank close to Sir Keir Starmer warns that failing to tackle the immediate effects of climate change risks losing ground to the right

The former PM’s clumsy climate intervention exposes the new political contest over the environment

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