Hypocisy by the Shadow Chancellor

SHADOW Chancellor MP Mel Stride recently stated: “We have some of the highest energy costs in Europe, and, regrettably, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is determined to only make this worse.”

- Mike Baldwin.

He added: It is abundantly clear that our Energy Secretary is more interested in ploughing evermore bill payers’ cash into various initiatives, including blanketing over farmland with expensive solar farms than actually driving down energy prices.”

Mr Stride’s audacity is outrageous. The cheapest form of electricity generation is onshore wind, closely followed by solar.

In 2015, David Cameron declared “cut the green crap’ effectively curtailing all onshore wind generation. The subsequent extra reliance on gas became critical in 2022.