At a time of global challenges from war to rising energy prices the Conservative Party faces a choice: do we seek to continue with business as usual, knowing that this approach has led us to where we are now, or are we prepared to face the future, and to recognise that we, along with the […]
The Conservative leadership race is hotting up. As we come to cast our votes in the third round ballot today, temperatures in Westminster and the UK could reach record levels. The public are right to want to know what we intend to do: not just to prevent thousands of deaths during a heatwave, but how […]
Three years ago this week the UK became the first major economy to sign ‘net zero’ – net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 – into law. As the minister responsible at the time, it was a decision made against a swirling backdrop of Theresa May’s final days in government, a doomed Brexit deal, along […]
It doesn’t matter what you call it – one man’s ‘windfall tax’ is another’s levy – but Rishi Sunak’s decision to address high gas prices by establishing a new multi-billion pound levy on fossil-fuel producers is sensible politics. Not only is it the right decision to ensure that the most disadvantaged in society are given […]
The tragedy of the Ukrainian crisis has left us with three energy challenges: our own security of supply, rocketing bills and how to stop funding Putin’s war machine. I am immensely proud of the leadership shown by the Government in ditching Russian oil. We must now also ditch gas not only to further weaken Putin, […]
Two years ago, I was the energy minister who signed the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 into law. It passed unopposed in the House of Commons, while the same year achieving net zero by 2050 was a core part of the Conservative 2019 General Election manifesto (indeed it was on the […]
