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Ed Miliband has accused Reform UK of peddling “nonsense and lies” over net zero, attacking those who “want to knock us off course”.
In an article for The Observer, the UK’s energy secretary suggested green power targets will help the UK loosen its dependency on foreign supplies – such as those from Russia.
Help for his argument came in a new study that found just half Britain’s electricity supply last year was derived from foreign energy imports, down from 65 per cent in 2014.
The subtext for Miliband’s piece is the May local elections, in which Labour is banking on its climate policies to help the party. They might.
A majority in every constituency last year said they were worried about climate change, and the environment is an issue on which there is clear daylight between Labour and Reform.
Nigel Farage recently told a campaign event that Britain was going through “a period of net-zero lunacy”.
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