Andy Burnham’s new Net Zero Secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, has pushed for green taxes on plane tickets to drive down air travel and stop people flying. The Telegraph has the story.

Miatta Fahnbulleh advocated frequent-flyer levies that would add hundreds of pounds to the annual costs of regular travellers.

Now the Energy Secretary, she called for the taxes while chief executive of the New Economics Foundation think tank between 2017 and 2023.

During her time there, the think tank proposed in 2021 adding an escalating levy to tickets which would increase for every subsequent flight taken within a year, replacing the current Air Passenger Duty system.

Her appointment on Monday is likely to raise concerns that some of her previous policy proposals may be taken forward.

The think tank’s work has been incorporated into Labour policymaking in the past, including work on green industrial strategy and energy.

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