Rishi Sunak in heated radio clash over taking private jet to make net zero pledge

Rishi Sunak clashed with a BBC radio presenter over his decision to fly to Scotland in a private jet on Monday, 31 July, to announce the expansion of future oil and gas licensing rounds for the North Sea.

When pressed by Martin Geissler on Good Morning Scotland about how he was travelling to the announcement, the prime minister accused the presenter of thinking that “the answer to climate change is getting people to ban everything that they’re doing, to stop people flying.”

Sunak defended using a plane to travel to Scotland as being the “most efficient use of my time.”