Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
that he had overruled his own advisers to impose the policy after less than a week as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.Whatever Labour plans to do on economic growth will be dwarfed by the scale of damage that Ed Miliband will do to Britain’s energy supply.This is the sort of adolescent political posturing which could cost tens of thousands of skilled jobs across the UK, but concentrated in the North East of Scotland.
“As previously stated, we will not issue new licences to explore new fields. We will also not revoke existing oil and gas licences and will manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan. “We are working with the North Sea Transition Authority to ensure a fair and balanced transition in the North Sea.”
Labour’s election manifesto pledged that the party would not grant new North Sea exploration licences, but would not cancel those which had already been granted.Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners.
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