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Tories pledge to offer ‘affordable’ plan on climate changeBusiness Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, has insisted the government is focused on providing a plan that is “affordable, fair and proportionate” in combatting climate change. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 I've been speaking regularly to companies in the auto industry and in their supply chain.
00:05 We do understand that there are varying views about exactly what we should do.
00:10 So what we've done is we've kept the mandates in place for 2030 so that we have 80 percent
00:16 of vehicles electric.
00:19 But at that point what we're not doing is banning petrol and diesel cars because we
00:23 know that there will still be some people who might not be able to afford them in about
00:28 six years' time.
00:29 So this is something that we're doing in order to make sure that this is an affordable policy
00:33 that is done in a fair and proportionate way.
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