The Nationals’ highest governing body has voted to compel the parliamentary party to dump net zero mandates, a day before a party room meeting in which leader David Littleproud said its climate policy would be settled.

While Liberal MPs left a meeting on Friday broadly united in favour of reducing emissions , although also watering down targets, delegates at the National Party Federal Council’s annual meeting in Canberra on Saturday voted to ditch any net zero plan after hearing speeches from parliamentary leaders that lauded the party’s resolve in its split from the Liberals.

“Tomorrow morning our party room will meet to consider your deliberations today, and also the work that [senators] Ross Cadell and Matt Canavan have put together with the Page Research institute to look at the ch

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