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Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?

30 January 2025

2:38 AM

30 January 2025

2:38 AM

Why is it that some lies get endlessly repeated without ever being challenged, even though they are quite obviously wrong? In her pro-growth speech today, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves asserted:

‘There is no trade-off between economic growth and net zero’.

Government ministers, advisers and many others have been saying such things for years – and hardly ever do they get properly challenged.

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