There are no easy solutions. When you hear someone urging the country to get real about the vulnerabilities of renewable energy, but without also acknowledging the fragilities of a hydrocarbon-based economy, the argument is either blinkered or made in bad faith.
The only answer is for government to get out the way, make mature technologies stand on their own financially and stop socialising the costs of Ed Miliband’s follies via consumers’ bills.
Whilst all rather extreme situations there are certainly possible scenarios for an election in 2027, none of which are impossible, despite the fact constitutionally Labour could, and might want to, hold out until August 2029
A move to the left will mean that more centrist voters will be up for grabs. It is a huge opportunity that the Conservative Party cannot afford to miss.
Miliband ducks questioning in the Commons, hides behind meaningless soundbites on the media, and has never, ever, published a forecast of what his radical plans will do to people’s energy bills.
China is a threat. It is trying to subvert the international system. Our best chance to avoid both dependency and war is to stand up for ourselves now, minimise our dependency and strengthen our alliances.
Officials need to level with the public. Clean Power 2030 is wasteful, expensive, and could have lasting negative effects on Britain’s grid. We cannot continue to put Net Zero ideology over economic realities.
Conservatives should of course want to conserve the planet. But we need to remain down-to-earth about the limits of this country’s moral influence and the global impact that further cutting Britain’s carbon emissions will make.
While there are no guarantees that Starmer will go next year, Conservative strategists would be well-advised to make contingency plans.
One statistic epitomises the Government’s failure. In 2025, for the first time since the 1960s, no new exploration wells have been drilled in the British North Sea. Meanwhile Norway have drilled almost 40.
It’ll feel a shorter road to May than the calendar suggests, all parties need to get on top of their equations and produce some credible solutions to our knotty problems.
The government argument goes that wholesale electricity is only so dear because the price reflects the gas price. This is very misleading.
“We have got to stamp out all forms of prejudice, antisemitism, Islamophobia, wherever we find them,” he says.
A Conservative government must take the practical path: back the North Sea, back nuclear, protect our green and pleasant land, and build the infrastructure that will actually deliver the power Britain needs.
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