LBC opinion piece, on Climate, 13 November 2026

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Dimitri Zenghelis, a Senior Fellow at LSE's Grantham Research Institute, argues in a clearly labelled LBC opinion column that cutting the UK's electric vehicle sales target would hand the market to China and harm British industry, consumers and health. None of its claims matches a catalogued false claim about the science or policy, and nothing in the supplied material contradicts its figures.

Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.

What it gets right

  • “with the Royal College of Physicians finding that 30,000 UK deaths were linked to air pollution in 2025”

    The author names the source of the UK death figure rather than stating it bare, so the reader can see where the number comes from.

  • “Andy Burnham told COP31 that the UK has ‘not moved as quick as I have hoped’ on electrification of the country.”

    The author attributes the Prime Minister's words to him in quotation marks and ties them to the occasion, rather than paraphrasing them into his own argument.

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