Never miss a moment Stay ahead with live news updates in our award-winning app One year for £25. |  | Ben Riley-Smith Political Editor | Get ready for a Tory policy blitz. That is the message coming from Kemi Badenoch’s team as we approach a critical party conference with opinion polls looking dire for the Conservatives.
We get our first indication of what that looks like today.
The Tory leader vows to repeal the “failed” Climate Change Act 2008, which sets legally binding targets to make the UK a net-zero carbon emitter by 2050.
The law – brought in by Ed Miliband – was updated and strengthened by Theresa May in 2019. If the Act goes, so too does that legal requirement.
This would pave the way for the Tories to scrap electric-car targets, as well as plans to phase out gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps.
But there would be other knock-on consequences. The law requires the Government to set carbon budgets every five years that it must stick to, ensuring emissions drop.
Mrs Badenoch explains: “We want to leave a cleaner environment for our children, but not by bankrupting the country.
“Climate change is real. But Labour’s laws tied us in red tape, loaded us with costs, and did nothing to cut global emissions.”
Environmental groups have been quick to pan the proposal.
It is unclear what plan Mrs Badenoch would put in place instead to help tackle climate change, which she concedes is happening. The move is evidence of a wider shift on net zero politics over the past year, and starts a critical seven days for Mrs Badenoch, with the Conservative Party conference starting in Manchester on Sunday.
Read the full story here ➤ |  | Matt Pritchett Cartoonist | There’s always a cartoon that dominates a period, but Peanuts is exceptional – it’s had such a reach over the past 75 years, for people of all ages, that I wanted to mark the occasion.
I’ve loved Charles Schulz’s creations since I was a child – Charlie Brown was my favourite because he just seemed so crushed by life, and I can also relate to Snoopy. Part of the joke is that Snoopy is entirely expressionless while he’s thinking all these wild things. He has a whole hinterland going on in his head, such as fighting the Red Baron.
It was an education for me, not just in angst and psychology, but Schulz’s style of drawing had a huge influence on my own work: the way a few little lines can convey such a range of expressions. Just a crinkled little mouth can indicate so much disappointment and anxiety and downtroddenness – all the things I love best. And then I wondered how my own dog Reg compares with Snoopy...
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But this was not just any criminal. This was Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, and the residents wanted to take action. Continue reading ➤ | |  | | 2022 was Leanne Hainsby-Alldis’s worst year. The Peloton fitness instructor miscarried her baby in the spring, her best friend died suddenly in the summer and she was diagnosed with breast cancer come autumn. The future she’d longed for seemed lost. “Fertility declines anyway, let alone with chemo, surgery and drugs,” she says. Now, three years on, she’s cancer free and expecting a baby at 38. “After three traumas; miscarriage, grief and cancer, this pregnancy feels incredibly precious,” she tells Susanna Galton in her first tell-all interview. “We’ve been through a lot... This is a new chapter, and I feel ready.” Continue reading ➤ | | | | | The race is on to find a weapon that can break the Russia-Ukraine stalemate. Russian soldiers are making incremental advances at horrific cost, but Ukraine is not about to accept defeat. Here, Roland Oliphant looks forward to a near future in which war could become a game for robots and how this could play out in practice.
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Meanwhile, Russian soldiers have resorted to training on horseback to counter Ukrainian drones.
Watch footage of this here ➤ | | | The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have led tributes to Dame Jane Goodall after her death at 91. The zoologist and primatologist, who was considered to be the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees, died of natural causes during a speaking tour in California. She spent a lifetime in close study of the primate species and in the process completely transformed man’s understanding of his nearest relation.
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And read tributes paid to the zoologist here ➤ | | | Recruiter Katie Roberts is used to strangers on LinkedIn asking for her number to discuss work. But Mark* was different. First, his texts started pouring in. “He started being very flirty and asked if I missed him,” she explains. Then, the calls began. “He started whispering down the phone,” she says. Soon, things became more graphic. This isn’t the first time Roberts has received inappropriate messages, and she’s not alone. For women on LinkedIn, the site is beginning to resemble a dating app... Continue reading ➤ | | | Thousands of British people move to France every year to start a new life. But how do you really make it feel like home? We asked four expats how they did it – from offering bottles of Ricard as olive branches to running for mayor. It goes to show, if you get it right, France will welcome you.
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Spain, on the other hand, has made it clear that British expats are persona non grata with a 100 per cent property tax for non-EU, non-resident buyers – but the idea may be doomed.
Below are two more helpful articles for you this morning: | | Jeremy Clarkson once said that “running a pub is harder than anything. Even farming.” But fellow pub owner Stuart Broad – England’s second most-capped Test cricketer – is much more bullish. “In the pub trade, we always say, ‘We are cautiously optimistic.’”
Broad set up The Cat and Wickets with his friend and former teammate Harry Gurney back in 2016. He was still playing for England then but knew that he needed a plan B. They have just opened their latest boozer, bringing the total to three across the Midlands. “The company went from being a hobby, because we wanted somewhere to go for Sunday lunch, to us going, ‘If we’re going to do it, let’s do it properly,’” says Broad. In three years, the turnover of the business has risen from £1.2m to £5.5m, and it employs 150 people.
Here, we found out how he did it ➤ It’s not all million-pound success stories, however, with family-run beermakers under threat from a Labour tax shake-up. For Cheshire brewery owners Oliver and William Robinson their 200-year-old family business is at risk of going under thanks to Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax rules set to come into effect next year. | A lip-curling cocktail Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
The negroni, proudly inflicting wicked hangovers since 1919, must be one of the most visually distinctive cocktails around. When you see that glowing red, set off by a slice of orange, you know you’re in for a good time, at least until the following day. For me – and I appreciate this may be controversial – its other signal achievement lies in making gin palatable. That’s another conversation, though.
As with many great Italian innovations, the basic recipe is one of beautiful simplicity. But, as Victoria Moore writes, there’s much scope for fine-tuning. Is there a better bitter than Campari? How many ice cubes?
Paul Bendit argued: “It’s the choice of vermouth that best distinguishes one negroni from another. For many, this cocktail is too sickly-sweet, especially if Martini Rosso is used. Those who enjoy the organoleptic excitement of a more bitter negroni should opt for the Punt e Mes vermouth that originates from Turin’s Carpano bar, and offers a perfect balance of bitter and sweet.”
Felicity Foulis Brown wasn’t sure about that: “My first (and last) experience of Punt e Mes was at the Luna Caprese restaurant on Oxford’s North Parade, in the autumn of 1978. My lips have only just uncurled at the memory.”
Geraldine Wills added: “Many years ago, while on holiday in Italy, my parents purchased a bottle of Punt e Mes, which had a promotional glass attached. They were unsure whether they’d made a wise choice when they noticed that the glass had a measure on it marked with the word ‘dose’.”
However, for Michael Brown: “there is no such thing as a bad negroni. This wonderful cocktail comes in many variations. Concern over a ‘sickly-sweetness’ could be met by using an artichoke-based bitter, Cynar. Recently, I discovered ‘Il Professore’ from the Grand Hotel Vesuvio, Naples, a negroni made subtly different by a touch of coffee liqueur. Still, my all-time favourite is my own creation, substituting Ouzo for the traditional gin, giving us Ouzoni.” Now that sounds dangerous. How do you mix yours? Let me know here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
The solution to yesterday’s clue was PRIMARILY. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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