Will the PM’s net zero strategy really create ‘good jobs, green jobs, well-paid jobs’?

Boris Johnson claims his plans to cut carbon emissions will help create 440,000 jobs by 2030

Boris Johnson visits the Scottish Power Carland Cross Windfarm
Boris Johnson visits the Scottish Power Carland Cross Windfarm on 9 June 2021
(Image credit: Jon Super - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

“We can build back greener, without so much as a hair shirt in sight.” So said the Prime Minister, in his typically ebullient introduction to the Government’s strategy for reaching net-zero greenhouse emissions.

On the one hand, we should be glad that the Government has finally published the plan, said Andrew Grice in The Independent. The bad news is that it is light on detail, and heavily reliant on Boris Johnson’s trademark “it will be all right on the night” approach.

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