Our new Government seems, as expected, to have put climate and energy at the top of its agenda. The Secretary of State for Net Zero and Energy Security, Ed Miliband, is back in office with the energy brief he lost in 2010 and full of enthusiastic zeal for Net Zero, despite the public comprehensively rejecting Milibandism in 2015. But this enthusiasm belies serious instability in the relationship between the Government and the public. According to news reports, Miliband believes the public has given Labour a mandate to act on his green zeal. Here are some reasons why Miliband is wrong – there is no such mandate, and the Government would be foolish to let him act like a kid in sweetshop with the public’s credit card.
In a recent interview with Sky News, an exuberant and confident Ed Miliband told Kay Burley:
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