Is this a pre-election stunt in the UK?

Time will tell if this is a pre-election stunt or whether this is a true course correct in the UK.

UPDATE:

From this it would seem it is exactly that!

Outragous: just hours after ending the threat of #fracking for gas, the UK Government has effectively approved the UK's first deep coal mine in over 30 years. The company plans to mine 2.5 million tonnes of coal every year for 50 years. #ClimateEmergencyhttps://t.co/JFmFme0Pa7

— Ric Lander 🐞 (@ricjl) November 3, 2019