Miliband blasts Farage and Tories for turning net zero into a ‘culture war’
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The energy secretary appealed for cross-party unity on net zero just hours after it was revealed Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attended the launch of a climate change denying lobby group. Ed Miliband has attacked politicians who are trying to turn the net zero debate “into a culture war issue” and warned that the British public would not forgive them.
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The energy secretary was making his first appearance since the election in front of the Commons energy and net zero committee to explain some of the decisions he has made to push the decarbonising agenda. But his session before MPs came in the wake of leading figures on the right including Nigel Farage and former prime minister Liz Truss appearing at the launch of a climate change denial lobby group.
The two were seen at the event for the Heartland Institute, a US-based lobby group that has previously made extreme statements expressing scepticism of climate change, launched its UK-EU branch last month, based in London. Both Farage and Truss along with their supporters have attacked attempts to bring down CO2 levels and prevent climate change including the push for electric cars and end of dependence on gas.
Mr Farage has taken similar lines to his friend and ally president-elect Donald Trump who has described net zero as “a hoax”. Mr Miliband went out of his way to praise senior Tories like for COP28 chairman Lord Alok Sharma and former prime minister Theresa May for being part of the cross party consensus in trying to achieve net zero.
