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How fast Britain cuts carbon emissions, what it costs, and who bears the cost. Parties are ordered left to right by our placement on the spectrum. Each line is the position in brief — open in full for the detail and where it is contested.
- Green
-7 on our scale
£90bn a year capital spending; water, rail and energy in public hands
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Capital spending raised by £90bn a year by 2030, of which more than £70bn goes to the green transition. Water, rail and energy companies would be taken into public ownership.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics Observatory - Labour
-3 on our scale
Strip policy levies from bills, worth about £130 a year
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Removing policy levies from energy bills, worth roughly £130 a year to a household, at a cost to the taxpayer of about £3.2bn a year.
Check itAndy Burnham's main policy pledges — Yahoo News - Lib Dems
-2 on our scale
End sewage discharges by water companies
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Ending sewage discharges by water companies has been the party's most prominent environmental campaign.
- Conservative
+5 on our scale
Repeal the Climate Change Act; net zero by 2050 unreachable
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Repealing the Climate Change Act. Badenoch argues net zero by 2050 cannot be reached "without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us".
Check itNet zero by 2050 'impossible', says Badenoch — BBC News - Reform
+8 on our scale
Scrap net zero targets; return to North Sea gas
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Scrapping net zero targets outright and "rehabilitating" North Sea gas as a primary energy source, framed as the fastest way to cut household bills.
Check itPolicies — Reform UK - Restore
+9 on our scale
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
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