DRIVING US MAD Brits back The Sun’s call to delay 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars in boost for our ‘Give Us A Brake’ crusade

MORE and more Brits are backing The Sun's call to delay the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars.

In a major boost for our ‘Give Us A Brake’ crusade, a new YouGov survey shows plummeting support for the flagship Net Zero policy.

Brits are backing our 'Give Us A Break' campaign

The Sun's Give Us A Brake Campaign aims to slow down the Government’s ruinous race to net zero

Almost half - 47 per cent - now are now opposed to the clampdown compared to 36 per cent that support it.

But more than half - 51 per cent - of voters backed the end of sales of non-green cars just two years ago as the cost of the policy becomes clearer.

And amongst the voters who gave the Tories their thumping 2019 election win, there is even more concern - with support dropping to just 19 per cent, from 41 per cent.

Amongst all voters support for new taxes on bills to encourage people to switch from gas to electricity has fallen from 24 per cent to just 16.

And support for new nuclear power

 stations has soared from 35 per cent in 2021 to 49 per cent in 2023.

Those who would be prepared to pay more in fuel duty, has fallen from from 36 per cent to 29 per cent.

And as the true cost of Net Zero comes into view, voters' fears about the impact on the British economy has grown.

In 2021 just 22 per cent thought that government measures would have a negative effect - but that has now risen to 32 per cent.

Among 2019 Tory voters 43 per cent now think the measures would be bad for the UK, compared with 27 per cent two years ago.

Last night Tory MPs pointed to the changing mood to urge the Prime Minister to delay the 2030 ban.

Craig Mackinlay of the Net Zero watch group said support was “plummeting.”

“Most people now know of someone with an electric vehicle and will have heard first-hand how poor they are and that the country is not ready, both in electricity supply and charger availability to make them a realistic option.

“Further, people are starting to realise that EVs are far from green and the second-hand market is very uncertain.”

“I strongly recommend the government delay this daft and incoherent ban, he added.”

And ex-environment secretary George Eustice has urged the government to drop 2026’s ban on new oil boilers being installed in rural home';s off the gas grid, branding it “Ulez for the countryside.”