The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’ The government should stop talking about “net zero” when talking about the transition to clean energy because the phrase has become “a distraction”, MPs say. The cross-party Commons energy committee says the phrase has “lost much of its significant positive association” amid increasing misinformation. The term net zero has become a distraction from the broader aims and the benefits of the energy transition and the politics of the energy transition have become mired in a stale debate on the cost and feasibility of achieving an emissions target. The public debate fails to reflect the wider benefits of engaging with the transition or the costs of not tackling climate change … Future