Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latestΒ Net Zero drive as he also sets his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters.
Clean power remains essential. But until it arrives, Britain must stop LNG made scarce by the Iran war setting gas and electricity prices
The US-Israel war on Iran will drive household energy costs in Britain to their highest level in two years over the summer. This has given fresh impetus to calls for the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, to change course. The cabinet minister is vulnerable because he promised cheaper bills if Britain embraced his clean, green power plan.
Critics, including Labourβs former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, are circling. Yet Mr Miliband ought to ignore the naysayers. Until global carbon emissions, including Britainβs, are reduced to net zero, the planet will continue to fry and temperature records will continue to be broken.
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