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Lancashire Evening Post
|October 31, 2025
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride's website says: "The need to protect our environment for future generations was one of the reasons Mel got into politics in the first place.
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It continues saying that in 2019, as a Government minister, he supported “the UK in becoming the first major economy in the world to legislate for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
In March 2020 he stated: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has rightly led to the Government reviewing how we source our energy supplies.
"We need to be more self-reliant than we have been to date, going further and faster to produce renewable energy here in the UK.
"There was always going to have to be a shift away from importing gas in order to meet our net zero ambitions by 2050 but this must now happen as a matter of urgency.
This story is from the October 31, 2025 edition of Lancashire Evening Post.
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