Sir Keir Starmer has been warned his party could lose key voters as it puts itself "at loggerheads with two of the biggest trade unions in the country" over its energy policy.
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned his party could lose key voters as it puts itself "at loggerheads with two of the biggest trade unions in the country" over its energy policy.
Starmer vowed he would “get Britain building” and said the need for nuclear to drive growth in the UK was “critical”.
One of its proposed policies is to ban new oil and gas extraction licences in the North Sea.
GB News’ Business and Economics Editor, Liam Halligan, accused Labour of doing the “popular thing” rather than the right thing.
He said: “We still get 75 per cent of our energy needs from oil and gas here in the UK, about half of that oil and gas we generate and mine and create ourselves.
“Even the government's Climate Change Commission, the sort of in house cheerleader for green policy, says that by the end of 2030 we're still going to be using lots of oil and gas in this company in this country.
“So it does seem to make sense to me to use our own oil and gas. But Labour doesn't want that and that has really put them at loggerheads with two of the biggest trade unions in the country.”
