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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
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PUBLISHEDOct 9, 2026, 6:00 AM
What the source reports
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…
Main source: The Guardian Environment
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