Local parents demand meeting with MP over climate U-turns
JEN ROUSE
After news that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rolling back a range of climate targets, parents from the Hastings group of Parents For Future have written to Sally-Ann Hart, asking her to challenge the climate U-turns both within the Conservative Party and in parliament. They have also asked for a meeting to discuss their objections face to face. If they do not hear back, they will attend the MP’s surgery to express their concerns.
In the email to the Hastings MP they wrote: “As parents, we want the government to protect all of our children from climate change, but Rishi Sunak is instead prioritising short-term politics over the future of our families. We need the government to take more action on climate change, not less, and after months of climate chaos across the world this year, we are astonished that Rishi Sunak’s reaction is to weaken our climate commitments.”
Across the country, Parents For Future groups are contacting Conservative MPs in their local areas in response to the delay in climate targets. They are calling on the government to instead increase its investment in insulating homes, sustainable home heating and renewable energy in order to bring down energy bills at the same time as tackling climate change.
Rowan Ryrie, co-founder of Parents for Future UK, says: “Rishi Sunak has let down parents and young people across the country by pledging to weaken the UK’s climate commitments. This is a blatant example of short-term politics at the expense of our kids.
“We can tackle climate change at the same time as bringing down the cost of living. The government should be investing heavily in home insulation, clean home heating and renewable energy to do so, rather than rolling back on energy efficiency and subsidising new oil and gas fields that destroy our environment and fail to bring down bills.
“After months of climate chaos across the world, causing immense death and destruction, it is beyond belief that the UK government’s reaction is to roll back climate policies.
“Last year Rishi Sunak said, ‘If we do not act today, we will risk leaving an ever more desperate inheritance for our children.’ He was right then, but he is wrong now. Parents across the country will not forgive him, and will vote accordingly, if he fails to act to protect all of our children’s future.”
For full email to Sally-Ann Hart go to hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/?p=25445
See our interview with Sally-Ann Hart MP in News
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