Very nice analysis. The nine points all ring true. I'd add that the machinery of government makes it hugely challenging to unpick a policy complex like 'net zero', which has tendrils in every nook and cranny of the state. Less positively, JRM as SoS (and his fellow travellers in Govt) diminishes the prospects of the UK taking climate leadership positions in the near term. For all its myriad faults, the BJ govt was pretty sound at that.
Very nice analysis. The nine points all ring true. I'd add that the machinery of government makes it hugely challenging to unpick a policy complex like 'net zero', which has tendrils in every nook and cranny of the state. Less positively, JRM as SoS (and his fellow travellers in Govt) diminishes the prospects of the UK taking climate leadership positions in the near term. For all its myriad faults, the BJ govt was pretty sound at that.