![Rishi Sunak is introducing the polarised climate politics of the US, Canada, and Australia to the UK](/content/images/size/w600/2023/10/www-0835.jpg)
Climate Change
— Rishi Sunak is using the short-term costs of green transition to justify a weakening of the UK’s climate policy, appealing to concerns about these costs. This strategy could polarise climate politics, and risk turning climate into a hotly contested political issue.