The UK has the most expensive industrial energy prices in the world. These are gutting our productive capacity in traditional energy-intensive industries, and pose a clear threat to our ability to benefit from the transformational impact of AI.
Why is a party that is called Labour and has a great past tradition of standing up for workers in industrial settings so unwilling to engage and to find a solution to the mass retreat from making materials and finished products in the UK?
This government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers has used its own skewed and incompetent interpretations of human rights, net zero, post-colonial settlements and other international treaties to sell us out and weaken our security.
The failed Labour leader, now Energy Secretary, is increasingly tipped as a possible Chancellor in a post–Keir Starmer world. But we may not need to speculate about what he would be like in No11. In many ways, the Miliband chancellorship is already on display.
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.
Badenoch understands the importance of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as Reform would risk. Those trotting along on their ideological ponies, tilting at windmills, need to have a word with themselves.
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.
If the Corporation cannot persuade even half the public it offers a well informed and unbiased public service, it will need to change.
There’s a clear political advantage for any who adopt language that frames their vision in a positive way. It’s simple psychology. People want something to believe in more than they want something that will give them Schadenfreude.
It is a decision that reflects one of the Conservative Party’s greatest strengths: pragmatism. When the evidence, the facts, and the fundamentals change, we respond to that change rather than dig our heels in and ignore the reality before us.
In a sign of changing Tory policy and aims The Conservative leader proposes to scrap a previous party ban on petrol cars if they win next election
Kemi Badenoch should take care to emphasise the latter as well as the former, so as to reassure environmentally-minded Conservatives that this is about better policy, not a dirtier planet.
In the long term, by supporting a thriving free market and creating the conditions for growth and innovation, we can achieve the greener future we all want.
We are the only political party with a properly funded plan to cut bills and axe the Carbon Tax in its entirety – and we’re the only political party that has written the legislation needed to open up the North Sea.