Burnham is gambling that UK can tackle climate change without sacrificing jobs, pushing up bills or hammering motorists

The Sun reports Andy Burnham's trip to the COP summit, the Jackdaw and Rosebank decisions and expected cuts to electric car targets, and keeps No10's denial that a final decision has been made. Its one weakness is the headline's verdict that climate policy risks "hammering motorists". The body never describes any measure that falls on drivers. The only car policy it reports is a sales target for new cars.

1. Uses a loaded word

   Minor

   “hammering motorists”

   Why this matters

   The Sun uses "hammering motorists" in its own voice in the headline to describe what tackling climate change could do to drivers.

   The impression it gives

   A reader takes it that climate policy punishes drivers, and that Burnham must dodge that harm.

   The context

   The only car policy the article describes is a requirement on the share of new cars sold that must be electric. The article reports no measure that costs drivers money or restricts them, so the verdict carried by "hammering" has nothing in the piece to support it.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“The requirement for 80 per cent of new cars to be electric by 2030”

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