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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

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The Guardian – UK
“Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error”

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way , a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the…

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The Guardian – World
“Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error”

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way , a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the…

Read at The Guardian – World
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