‘Detached from reality’: anger as Rishi Sunak plans to restrict solar panels

Climate campaigners dismiss government argument that controversial move will improve food security

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland, which climate campaigners say will raise bills and put the UK’s energy security at risk.

Last year, then prime minister Liz Truss attempted to block solar from most of England’s farmland. The plans were deeply controversial and unpopular, and were dropped when she left office.