The Green Party leader has admitted that she still has a gas boiler despite her party’s commitment to reach net zero by 2040.
Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Greens, has insisted she is “in the process of getting quotes” for an air source heat pump.
But she told ITV that she had put replacing it “on pause” during the general election and that she would revisit it once the campaign was over.
She told ITV’s The Leader Interviews: “At the moment I have a gas boiler and I’m literally in the process of getting quotes for replacing it with an air source heat pump.
“I’ve had to put that on pause during the general election as you can imagine, but I, yeah, literally have quotes in my email inbox.”
The Green Party has pledged to invest £9billion over the next five years for heat pumps and other heating systems to be put into homes and other buildings.
The party will also campaign for house builders to include “low carbon heating systems such as heat pumps” in all new homes “where appropriate”.
Other environmental policies in the Greens’ manifesto include reaching net zero by 2040 at the latest and phasing out nuclear energy, which accounts for about 15 per cent of the UK’s electricity.
A frequent flyer levy and a ban on short domestic flights are also part of the party’s manifesto pledges to cut emissions by individuals.
Ms Denyer told ITV the transition to a low-carbon economy would mean “certain activities will cost more” but insisted that the other tax changes they would make would mean people were “better off overall”.
She also said that climate change was a factor in her decision not to have children.