Pat McFadden, Cabinet Office minister, says changes to be announced today are about giving people ‘hope of work in the future’

Q: Why have you changed your mind on this?

Badenoch says she has not changed her mind. As a member of the government, she abided by collective responsibility. She says in government she regularly questioned the case for net zero.

The person who’s been consistent in all this is me.

I’m not going to pretend that I won’t have critics … This is politics. Being a politician is about being criticised.

What I’m asking people to do is listen to what I’m saying. I am not doing what all the other parties are doing. We are changing the way we do things.

That’s not how it works. You can’t just pull [a date] out of the air. And what we did was pick a target and then start thinking of how to get there.

We need to start thinking about it in a different way. How does this impact families? How is business going to help us deliver? And that’s what the policy commissions are going to do.