Matt Ridley

I mean, 2050, net zero, UK, only country doing it.

We only produce 0.87% of the world's emissions anyway.

It won't make a damn bit of difference whether we hit that or not.

And the technology to do that, as I say, is not here.

And it might come along in 2051.

And then you'd look a fool, wouldn't you?

You'd spend a fortune trying to get rid of emissions and you could have done it for free.

So I think that's a crazy way of going about it.

I think what the UK has done is unbelievably foolish and we should tear up net zero, get rid of the Climate Change Committee and instead fund research into energy technologies that might be able to solve the problem in the future.

Because if you could get fusion going,

economically five years earlier than it would otherwise by a bit more funding or if you could get small nuclear reactors cheaper five years sooner that would make far more difference than heat pumps and electric vehicles and all these kind of things so you know for me it's about researching the problem

to find solutions rather than enacting deadlines today.