Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Rishi Sunak thought he had found a template for attacking Labour as a party of anti-motorist ecowarriors.
53% : No one actually involved in writing or presenting government climate policy is preparing a U-turn in flight from Faragism.
52% : Anxiety about climate change is not confined to places that voted to remain in the EU.
45% : Farage needs a vehicle for economic and cultural grievance to replace his old anti-European bandwagon.
44% : In one survey by research organisation More in Common, 68% of Farage's constituents in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, declared themselves "somewhat" or "very" worried about the issue.
36% : Subsequent Tory leaders abandoned Johnson's rhetorical urgency over carbon emissions and repudiated Theresa May's targets for cutting them.
27% : His opponents can have Putin, Donald Trump and pollution on their team.

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