Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Badenoch, whether she understands this or not, isn't simply raising a question about whether 2030 or 2040 would be better targets for Net Zero, she's signalling that the Tories are very much the party for people who think that climate change is made up.
Signals matter in politics. When David Cameron "went green", it was far from obvious that he knew or cared about the issue (a wind turbine on your roof, really? A hybrid *Lexus*?) But he wanted to signal that the Tories weren't just a party for furious men with red trousers.
My favourite thing about it is that early on he tells you his approach to getting out of trouble - fess up to what's it there, obscure the rest - and then he spends the rest of the book doing that.