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About costs and trade offs. Discussions are ongoing ahead of a speech in the coming days. Mr sunak said the biggest commitment, to reach net zero Carbon Emissions by 2050, wont be abandoned. But the bbc has learned that some longstanding commitments are under threat. They include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035. The plan to phase out the installation of gas boilers by 2035 could be weakened, with only 80 phased out by then. And homeowners and landlords could be told there will be no new Energy Efficiency regulations on homes. 0ur Political Editor chris mason reports. Within the Conservative Party in recent months, a fuming row, Cost Of Living Squeeze but recent months, a fuming row, cost of living squeez living squeeze but extra cost for families to living squeeze but extra cost for families to green living squeeze but extra cost for families to green targets. Living squeeze but extra cost for families to green targets. Longterm families to g
ministers sincejuly last year that this very situation was inevitable unless they sat down and talked to unions about how they could invest. we ve got a workforce crisis going on across the nhs. and that s manifesting itself most acutely in the ambulance service, where those people are at the really sharp end of seeing the effect of pay and staffing emergencies across the health service. joining me now is miriam deakin, director of policy and strategy at nhs providers the membership organisation for nhs trusts in england. thank you forjoining us. we have heard from health care worker after health care worker that they don t want to be on the baguette lines but they say they have been driven to this position. at the picket lines. they say there are only so many times they can ask nicely for better pay and conditions. do you have sympathy with them as we see
strike agreed, for example, like the most urgent 999 calls as we are seeing today, and then trusts will put a huge amount of time into working with their local union reps to agree what further exemptions from strike are likely to occur. they will do their best to get as many services running as possible. they will be supporting their staff and they will be prioritising patient safety as far as they can. so they will draw on agency and bank staff, get as many people into the service as they can, they will redeploy people to the most critical areas of service. but there is no question that particularly that six to february is looking to be an incredibly disrupted day and a day the likes of which we haven t seen before in the nhs. before in the nhs. director of oli before in the nhs. director of policy and before in the nhs. director of policy and strategy before in the nhs. director of policy and strategy at - before in the nhs. director of policy and strategy at nhs - policy and st