Hermione Dace

Cheap energy needs less ideology and more common sense. Glad to see the Tony Blair Institute is catching up with Conservative policy. Our plan to Axe the Carbon Tax and scrap old wind subsidies would cut electricity bills by 20%.

Devastating report from Tony Blair Institute on Ed Miliband’s net zero nonsense. His claim that net zero will create hundreds of thousands of green industrial jobs vastly overstated. Investing in green technology unlikely to reverse the long-term decline of British industry. Ministers must not “over-state the job opportunities from green manufacturing”. A “mistake” to let net zero dominate the Government’s entire economic strategy as it would deliver only a meagre boost to growth. What the report doesn’t say — but I do — is that we could easily increase defence spending to 3%+ of GDP by switching resources from net zero to a military build up.