UKPublic opinion turns against Net Zero policiesNew polling and focus groups for The Times show a surge in climate scepticism. One in four Britons now say global warming is exaggerated, while support for net zero measures — petrol car bans, heat pumps, higher gas bills — has collapsed. Voters increasingly see climate as a low priority beside crime, the NHS and the cost of living, as the political consensus on net zero frays. Ratcliffe pulls investments out of the UKSir Jim Ratcliffe’s energy empire has pulled all investment in Britain over Labour’s tax raid on North Sea oil and gas production. Ratcliffe said: “We have stopped investing in Britain. Our future investment will not be [in] the UK. There’s no question of that.” Farage almost as trusted as Labour on climateNew polling for The Times finds 22% of voters trust Nigel Farage on climate policy, barely behind Keir Starmer (24%) and Ed Miliband (23%). The result reflects a surge in scepticism as support for costly net zero measures falls. Miliband refuses to leave DESNZ in reshuffleSir Keir Starmer tried to move Ed Miliband out of his energy brief and into the housing department but the former Labour leader refused. The climbdown shows Starmer knows Miliband’s net zero agenda is politically costly - but also that it remains untouchable inside Labour. SDP leader: UK energy crisis has cost us a year’s GDPSDP leader William Clouston writes in The Critic that soaring power costs are the root of Britain’s productivity crisis. Since 2004, industrial electricity prices have jumped 260%, costing the economy the equivalent of a year’s GDP. The SDP’s Energy Abundance plan calls for state-led coal, gas and nuclear, a new national utility, and fixing prices at 10p/kWh to restore growth. Reform councils scrap Net Zero targetsCouncillors at Reform UK-run North Northamptonshire Council have voted unanimously to scrap their Net Zero by 2030 target.
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