Moves to make all new homes zero carbon ready should be brought forward by two years from 2025, even if housebuilders “scream and shout”, a rising star on the Conservative backbenches has urged.

Bim Afolami MP, chair of the all-party group PRASEG (Parliamentary Renewable & Sustainable Energy Group), told a fringe meeting at the Tory conference on Sunday night that the government must up the pace of the introduction of the Future Homes Standard shake up of building regulations.

He said: “We need to move faster than 2025.

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