By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Labour's plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in just five years' time will be axed by the Conservative, Kemi Badenoch has pledged.
The Tory leader also said she would cut some subsidies for the electric sector, saving the taxpayer £3.8billion over the next decade. To reverse the 2030 petrol car ban, she intends to scrap the 'destructive' Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
Under the law, car manufacturers must meet rapidly increasing quotas for sales of electric vehicles (EVs), which will eventually rise to 100 per cent. This means fully petrol and diesel-powered cars will be banned from 2030.
But industry figures have privately raised concerns that demand from the public for EVs is not strong enough to meet the quotas.
In 2020, the then-prime minister Boris Johnson first unveiled plans for a ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030.
Two years ago, former prime minister Rishi Sunak delayed the ban on new petrol cars until 2035. But Labour reinstated the 2030 ban earlier this year, arguing that Net Zero was the 'economic opportunity of the 21st century'.
Now it's time to have your say in the Daily Mail's latest poll on whether the 2030 ban should be scrapped:
In our previous poll, Mail readers were asked: 'Do you support Wes Streeting’s puberty blockers trial on children?' Some 96 per cent of you said 'no' and 4 per cent said 'yes'.
