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Fracking was banned over environmental risks, but Andrea Jenkyns wants to bring the practice back in Lincolnshire

Fracking was banned over environmental risks, but Andrea Jenkyns wants to bring the practice back in Lincolnshire

Clark and others on the right appear genuinely alarmed by the prospect that Miliband could return to the very top of British politics, and they are doing everything they can to convince voters that his tenure as energy and net zero secretary would spell ruin for the country.

This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.

Electoral Commission records show that on the 2nd September 2025 Reform UK accepted the donation.

The result was a COP where the foes of ambition were emboldened, its proponents frustrated, and in which countries which could have shown leadership, such as China and India, refused to step up.

Despite climate change having catastrophic effects, with extreme weather events on the rise, including heat waves, droughts and flooding, right-wing politicians have sought to rubbish net zero policies,

‘For the Conservative Party, it risks chasing votes from Reform at the expense of the wider electorate.’

Time is short. The climate crisis is rapidly accelerating, and those least responsible, here in the UK and overseas, are on the front lines and increasingly threatened.

From scrapping green energy measures to creating a version of Trump’s deportation force, the Tories have announced some bad policies

‘Reform’s paper to council is full of conspiracy theories and garbage science.’