As the article points out, the govt goes out of their way to make cooling heat-pumps unattractive:

>The government offers subsidies worth £7,500 to people replacing a gas boiler with an electric heat pump, but only if it produces solely heat. A system that can heat in winter and cool in summer receives nothing.

Unfortunately, heat pumps in every home is the sort of absolutist policy that simplistic politicians and bureaucrats love.

"Proving that gov't can make the cure far worse than the disease is a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it."

Heat pumps are very impractical to install in many existing homes.