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Kemi Badenoch has committed the Tories to breaking Britain’s net zero commitments in order to extract as much oil and gas as possible from the North Sea.

The Tory leader has said that Britain “cannot afford not to be doing everything to get hydrocarbons out the ground” as she pledged her party would make “maximising extraction” a goal if it wins power.