UKTories unveil new policies to make electricity and energy cheap againClaire Coutinho used her conference speech to unveil a set of new policies to get energy bills down by 20% in the short term. These include axing the Carbon Tax and removing subsidies, including the Renewables Obligation. She has promised more policies are in the pipeline. On the finge, she told an audience that AR7 must not be allowed to go ahead and that she will be seeking legal advice on her available options if does. She confirmed she is willing to work with allies to stop AR7 before January 2026. Badenoch also used her speech to say she has had enough of deindustrialisation and will reverse it with a strategy that makes energy cheap again. Boris Johnson: I went too fast on Net Zero“I think net zero, we went far too fast. And I’ve got to be honest about that," admits Boris Johnson in his most outspoken comments against the policy he championed. Mr Johnson said he got “carried away” by the idea that renewable energy sources could replace fossil fuels and, as a result, electricity is “too expensive for ordinary people”. Miliband under pressure over NESO reportEmails show Miliband’s department and his advisers were repeatedly consulted during the drafting of the ‘independent’ report on Labour’s flagship Net Zero target. The report has been repeatedly relied up by the Government as it seeks to justify its Clean Power 2030 plans in Parliament. Coutinho has called for Miliband to be investigated. SNP ignores Aberdeen oil and gas sectorThe SNP has been accused of being “all over the shop” after failing to talk about the future of the oil and gas industry at the party’s conference, despite it behind held in Aberdeen. First Minister John Swinney faces accusations of leaving energy workers “in the dark about their future” as Scotland’s leading trade unionist will say that the Scottish Government’s industrial strategy amounts to nothing more than a "glorified prospectus for the finance sector."
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