Lord Craig Mackinlay has declared that Britain's energy industry is "recoverable" if the country abandons its "mad" net zero targets.
The former MP compared the UK's energy sector to his own health crisis that saw him suffer from sepsis.
The 58-year-old was hospitalised with the life-threatening infection that caused his immune system to overreact and damage his own tissues and organs.
He went into septic shock, resulting in kidney and liver failure, blood clots forming and his limbs turning black and he later returned to Westminster as what he described as the "first Bionic MP" with prosthetic limbs.
Lord Craig Mackinlay has been appointed as the new director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation
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Lord Mackinlay has been appointed as the new director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), returning to front-line politics after stepping down as an MP.
The former MP for South Thanet will lead the think tank co-founded by the late Lord Lawson.
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Speaking to GB News, he explained: "When you recognise that you're very unwell too late you can end up close to death. I had only a 5 per cent chance of survival.
"Now, I would say the chance of survival of our country's high energy industry is hovering around 5 per cent, but it is recoverable. I'm here to speak to you because my condition was recovered.
"So I think the condition of the UK, in terms of massively high energy prices, de-industrialisation, no more steel being made, even Stoke Potteries starting to close down and move production abroad, is recoverable.
"But we need to act now. We need to get off the mad net zero pathway. We actually need to get rid of the Climate Change Act or amend it massively.
"We need to go back on a pathway where most of the rest of the world is going.
"You have to look at Trump's America to realise that they're going for cheap energy. China has never gotten off it with their building of a new coal power station every week.
"But we are now uniquely daft, uniquely stupid, in pursuing the net zero agenda. We will win the race because everybody else has simply given up.
"So that's my new message. It’s the same message I’ve had for years, it’s just that now I have a position as the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to get us back onto a sensible pathway."
Labour has pledged to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases
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Labour has pledged to reduce UK emissions of greenhouse gases by 81 per cent by 2035.
The GWPF operates as a charity aiming to promote policies that boost human and economic wellbeing while protecting the environment.
It provides an educational platform for "open and honest" debate on climate issues.
