According to the Times, Rishi Sunak is to stick with plans to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, despite pressure from Conservative backbenchers. It says that after what it calls a “wobble”, the prime minister has accepted that changing course would damage the industry. The paper says ministers are understood to have promised BMW that they would not relax the targets, during talks to secure £600m of investment to build electric Minis in Oxford rather than China.
