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Andy Burnham has promised a “new era of British leadership” on net zero as every other G7 leader shunned the COP31 climate summit.
While British businesses and households are crippled by energy costs, the PM is busy committing taxpayer cash towards climate change projects overseas.
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“Changing who pays for expensive energy doesn’t make it cheaper to supply,” warns @MrRBourne. Britain's electricity prices are already distorted by green levies, carbon charges and costly cross-subsidies.
"Rather than fiddling with pricing structures, ministers’ time would surely be better spent working on supply side reforms to make energy cheaper."
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50 years ago today, the first oil flowed from the Brent field in the North Sea — helping transform Britain into a global energy powerhouse.
Half a century after Britain celebrated its North Sea energy revolution, the Government is proposing a permanent ban on new exploration.
From celebrating our energy resources to leaving them untapped. How times have changed.
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"Virtually every interim target on the way to the Government’s overall, legally binding 2050 Net Zero target is being abandoned, or relaxed, as it flies headlong into reality" says @RossjournoClark.
"At some point, though, the 2050 Net Zero target is going to reach a crunch point at which it has to be relaxed, if not abandoned altogether. I doubt the current Government will want to make the call, but I will give the 2050 Net Zero target until 2030 at the latest."
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It’s in the context of the sky-high costs for British industry today that Burnham and Healey appear to be taking Labour down a “new course on energy”.
In negotiations with EU chiefs and international representatives at COP31 in Turkey this week, the Prime Minister faces a tussle in balancing advocacy for long-term net zero policy with the reality that Britain is unattractive for manufacturers – complicating his effort for “re-industrialisation”. @MauricioFCA
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“It makes no sense to import oil and gas, often from repressive regimes abroad, if there are still hydrocarbons available locally,” @iainmacwhirter warns.
With up to 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent potentially remaining, even John Swinney is finally talking sense on oil and gas and Labour’s determination to leave reserves untapped could be a gift to Scottish nationalism.
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Andy Burnham is heading for #COP31 this week - just as ministers are poised to cut EV targets requiring 80% of new car sales to be electric by 2030.
Car manufacturers have warned that the targets are unrealistic and the EU has already retreated from its own petrol and diesel car ban.
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China now manufactures 75% of the world's electric cars, 80% of its lithium-ion batteries and more than 70% of its wind generators. And Britain is dangerously exposed warns Matthew Brooker.
Meanwhile, the UK's dependence on Chinese clean-energy technology continues to grow, raising serious questions about industrial resilience and energy security.
Is Britain's green transition helping to build China's industrial future at the expense of our own?
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Our energy bills are already sky-high thanks to disastrous net zero policies by successive governments.
Now Burnham is putting Britain’s energy security further at stake - not to mention our prosperity and thousands of skilled jobs.
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Labour MPs have accused Andy Burnham of hypocrisy over his ban on drilling for new oil and gas in the UK, saying that importing oil and gas while banning Britain's own drilling is an absurd "act of self-harm". dailysceptic.org/2026/11/05/…
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Andy Burnham promised a 'pragmatic' approach to oil and gas - he lied.
Labour's plan to outlaw new oil and gas drilling is totally ideological and will destroy jobs in my constituency.
