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Iain Duncan Smith's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Iain Duncan Smith in the last 90 days

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• 15 Apr 2025: Tweet

  RT @TalkTV: Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith says Ed Miliband is obsessed with Net Zero, "as though this was some kin… [Source]

• 15 Apr 2025: Tweet

  RT @TimesRadio: “He’s going hell for leather to try and get the net zero process going, but as far as he's concerned he doesn't care what h… [Source]

• 12 Apr 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  We have another problem, which I hope the Government will deal with in the context of the Bill when they talk to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Things have changed. The Prime Minister himself has said that the world has changed. We have been operating in what we considered to be a global free market. I have argued for some time that this is not a free market. Far too many countries such as China have abused the rules of the free market, subsidised their industries ridiculously and used slave labour to produce their products. When that happens, the free market is dead. We must recognise that we will have to deal with those whom we trust and who do not break the rules. That means a whole rethink of the Government’s China policy and of whether we need to rush to China for investment. We need to ensure that we deal with our industry at home and that we produce things again.

  There is much to be dealt with, and I urge the Government to listen to the House and to check all of this. Cheap Chinese steel is a desperate problem for us, and we need to work with other countries in dealing with it. We also need to get our costs down. On net zero, I hope that the Secretary of State will tell the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero that we cannot go on like this.

  I am grateful for that, because it allows me to say something that I had not been planning to say: we sit on an island of gas, so why, for goodness’ sake, are we not drilling for it? We need it, and we will need it strategically. There is a need for strategic industry, and I agree with the Secretary of State on that. However, the issue does not stop there; it stops elsewhere, in the production of energy. I simply leave that point for him, and he can argue it with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

  Full debate: Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

• 26 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @TalkTV: Former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith slams Ed Miliband’s Net Zero goals which is “forcing their own backbench… [Source]

• 26 Mar 2025: Tweet

  As Ed Miliband drives his rush to Net Zero in the UK spending billions purchasing solar arrays and wind turbines, it becomes clear that he places the timetable of his role out above all other issues. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34051592/ed-miliband-net-zero-green-reality/ China’s solar arrays, that he will be carpeting the countryside with, are and will be made using slave labour. The same politicians who talk endlessly about ethics, equality, and decarbonisation is planning to turn a blind [Source]

• 25 Mar 2025: Tweet

  Speaking earlier in the Great British Energy Bill debate I told the government, I will not stop and many in the House will not stop until the govetnment faces up to one thing and one thing only; not one life through modern slavery is worth a lower cost of a solar array and that should be an epitaph of this ridiculous position the government is in, turning a blind eye to slave labour in the supply chain in pursuit of unrealistic Net Zero targets. [Source]

• 25 Mar 2025: Tweet

  Speaking earlier in the Great British Energy Bill debate I told the government, I will not stop and many in the House will not stop until the govetnment faces up to one thing and one thing only; not one life through modern slavery is worth a lower cost of a solar array and that should be an epitaph of this ridiculous position the government is in, turnig a blind eye to slave labour in the supply chain in pursuit of unrealistic Net Zero targets. [Source]

• 23 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @GBNEWS: Ed Miliband accused of brushing off slave labour concerns in relentless push for net zero: ‘It’s brutal’ https://www.gbnews.com/politics/ed-miliband-net-zero-iain-duncan-smith-china-slave-labour [Source]