Labour still seems to be driven primarily by ideology, rather than affordability. Unfortunately, it is households and businesses who will pay the price for that tunnel vision.
Like the UK, Sweden produces less than 0.4 per cent of the world’s steel; however, unlike the UK, Sweden’s steel companies are profitable and enjoy a global reputation for producing exceptionally high-quality virgin steel products.
There is something so quintessentially Modern Britain about publishing a report calling for a bold break with the status quo and disowning it immediately to help your successor get through one PMQs.
We’ve now been honest with the British public about what net zero by 2050 truly means: what it costs, who pays, and who stands to benefit. We’ve been frank that successive governments, including Conservative ones, took the wrong path.
Labour ministers who until recently yearned to rejoin the European Union now proclaim their devotion to the United Kingdom.
When it comes to climate change, pretty much everything should be on the table as the party seeks to craft a policy platform that decarbonises the economy, boosts our energy security and keeps bills low.
The cost of electricity is indeed too high though overall progress is not too bad. There are economic opportunities here which Conservatives as a pro-growth party should be focussing on.
The policy is the ultimate piece of virtue signalling. Where is the money to pay for it? It is fantasy, but the failed attempt will still be ruinously expensive.
Almost exactly 10 years ago, Ed Miliband was pushing local control of schools – I’d never have believed then that we’d see a Labour government praising multiacademy trusts.
Reform’s policy means more state intervention and higher bills. Labour’s policy means more state intervention and higher bills. There is now a huge political space for the Conservative Party to occupy.
Costing the UK taxpayer billions so far, many of Britain’s national targets linked to combating climate change are too often liable to arbitrary change themselves.
Even if Keir Starmer is reluctant to reshuffle, the first rumours that one is in the offing are emerging.
Taxes were at a 70-year high, the state accounted for 45 per cent of GDP and the national debt stood at 100 per cent. So what did Reeves do? Did she try to return spending to where it had been in February 2020? Of course not. She went on a further tax and spending binge.
The Conservatives have tabled radical amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to end a system where paperwork is put above the national interest and our need for cheap, reliable energy.