’How can normal working class people afford Net Zero?’ furious London cabbie blasts Energy Minister

Working-class Brits think Net Zero is a “fantasy world” that will hit them in the wallets, the Energy Secretary has been warned. Sun Cabbie Grant Davies warned Tory Claire Coutinho the crippling costs of going green are unaffordable to most normal people. Grilled on this week’s edition of Never Mind the Ballots, Grant hit out: “There’s working class people who can’t put a tenner on the electric metre and you’re saying we’ve got to buy a heat pump for £13,000? “Even with the discount it comes to eight or nine grand. It’s a sort of fantasy world, isn’t it?” But Ms Coutinho insisted she had slowed down Net Zero plans to help Brits catch up with the cost of replacing boilers and fossil fuel cars with green alternatives. She told The Sun: “We are the first country to have halved emissions out of the top 20 largest economies in the world. So we’re doing very well at this. Continue reading... The Sun delivers breaking news, latest gossip and incredible exclusives