
Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Gamble: blackouts and sky-high bills
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After a brief trip to Planet Earth at the Reform UK party conference, the rocket is back and making sense of the madness, so you don’t have to!
Allison questions Starmer's decision making in light of yet another scandal, this time concerning Lord Peter Madelson and his 'friendship' with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Meanwhile Liam shares his frustration at Labour’s unrealistic net zero targets, which ignore the realities of our energy infrastructure and the harm it could cause the UK economy.
Strapping in with some stark energy warning is leading expert Kathryn Porter who warns Ed Miliband’s energy policy will make us colder and poorer…
Read Allison ‘At the risk of being arrested, I suggest Met chief Mark Rowley is a total muppet’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/09/allison-pearson-graham-linehan-arrest/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam ‘Reform has won the immigration argument. Now for the economy’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/07/reform-uk-won-immigration-argument-now-time-economy/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Kathryn ‘North Sea energy would help Reeves fill her black hole : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/06/its-time-labour-made-a-screeching-u-turn-on-the-north-sea/ |
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