Net Zero Watch welcomes boiler tax retreat

Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed the government’s decision to delay the introduction of the so-called ‘boiler tax’. Over the weekend, it was announced that the secondary legislation to bring in fines for manufacturers of gas boilers would not now be brought forward before the general election.

Welcoming the move, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford said:

We’ve been saying for some time that the retreat from Net Zero has begun. This is another small but significant step away from the economic brink to which decarbonisation madness has led us. Let us hope that the political classes are starting to recognise that Net Zero is electoral poison.

But Mr Montford warned that there was every possibility that an incoming Labour government will do the Conservatives’ dirty work for them:

It is more than likely that Mr Starmer and his party will simply introduce the system of fines after the election. That will be a bitter blow for electorate. But the Westminster establishment sees their needs as secondary to those of the green religion.