The hypocrisy is astonishing and shameless

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”

- Mike Baldwin.

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 2022 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.