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• 12 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The challenge of fuel poverty affects people of all ages throughout the country. Rather than just creating new benefits and schemes to address the high cost of fuel, we need to resolve the root causes of energy costs more generally. Here, the Government are taking the country in a very worrying direction. The Energy Secretary promises to decarbonise the grid by 2030, and the Business Secretary wants to ban petrol and diesel cars by the same year. Tough standards on aviation fuel are being enforced; heat pumps are expected to replace gas boilers; expensive and intermittent renewable technologies funded by huge and hidden subsidies are favoured; and oil and gas fields in the North sea are abandoned, left for the Norwegians to profit from what we choose to ignore.

  The Energy Secretary has made much of the National Energy System Operator’s report on decarbonising the grid. He says that report shows that he can do so by 2030 without increasing bills, but in fact the report does not say that—and even then, its calculations rest on a carbon price that will rise to £147 per tonne of carbon dioxide. It is no wonder that, in reply to a question I asked him last week, the Energy Secretary would not rule out having a higher carbon price in Britain than in Europe. That will be terrible for families struggling with the cost of heating their home, but it will hurt them—and indeed all of us—in other ways. As long as policy runs faster than technology and other countries do not follow our lead on climate change, decarbonisation will inevitably mean deindustrialisation. That will mean a weaker economy with lower growth, fewer jobs, and less spending power to help those who we have been discussing today—those who need support the most.

  Of course, it is not just the NESO report that shows us the future consequences of the Government’s policies. The OBR says that environmental levies will reach up to £15 billion by the end of this Parliament to pay for net zero policies. As those levies will fall heavily on consumption, they will have a particularly regressive effect, as analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Cornwall Insight has confirmed. It is therefore no wonder that Labour’s election promise to cut bills by £300 by the end of the Parliament has vanished without trace, so I challenge the Minister today to do what she has not done since polling day—repeat that promise very clearly. I suspect she will not because, unlike the Secretary of State, she knows the reality of his policies. The Government are adding complexity and contradiction to our energy system and loading extra costs on to families across the country. There is still time for Ministers to think again and put the interests of decent, hard-working people ahead of the Energy Secretary’s ideological dogma.

  Full debate: Fuel Poverty: England

• 12 Feb 2025: Tweet

  As long as Ed Miliband tries to make policy run faster than technology, and other countries do not follow Britain’s lead on climate change, decarbonisation will inevitably mean deindustrialisation. And that will leave us all poorer. My speech today. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1889658391380832599/video/1 [Source]

• 11 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  As the current Government continue down the ideological decarbonisation route, led by the Secretary of State, we will watch carefully in order to protect the families and businesses who bear the cost of unrealistic clean energy targets. Indeed, experts expect the energy price cap to rise next month. The Manchester-based— not Aberdeen-based—head of GB Energy, Juergen Maier, says it will be

  We support the regulations. We recognise their role in winding down the old schemes, but we remain vigilant about new policies that will surely make lives harder and more expensive because of the unattainable and self-harming decarbonisation goals that the Government are pursuing.

  Full debate: Draft Energy Bill Relief Scheme and Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2024

• 4 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government policy to decarbonise the grid by 2030 rests on the National Energy System Operator’s assumption of a £147 per tonne carbon price, but manufacturers are lining up to tell the Energy Secretary that it would destroy British industry. Will he guarantee today that for the remainder of this Parliament, we will have a lower carbon price than Europe?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 04 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Today I challenged Ed Miliband to guarantee that the British carbon price would remain lower than the European price for the remainder of this parliament. He refused. The carbon price set out in his plan to decarbonise the grid will destroy British industry. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1886759946257064061/video/1 [Source]

• 31 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Since the Chancellor’s “growth speech” on Wednesday, there has been radio silence from Ed Miliband. Not a word from him on Heathrow expansion. The loudest cheerleader for net zero seems to have lost his voice. But here’s what he used to say. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1885418936558121065/video/1 [Source]

• 28 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Yesterday Britain's energy intensive industries told the Industry Minister that they "will not be able to bear" the carbon price assumptions in the NESO report on decarbonising the grid by 2030. https://www.eiug.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250127-Open-Letter-to-DBT-Minister-Sarah-Jones-MP-EIUG-and-EII-Trade-Associations.pdf [Source]

• 28 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030 is based on increasing the carbon price to £147 per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. As I said in my speech last night, that would mean the destruction of industry in this country (1/4). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1884193298782511484/video/1 [Source]

• 25 Jan 2025: Tweet

  The idea that anybody takes this seriously when they are re-regulating the labour market, destroying British oil and gas, increasing NICs, equalising the minimum wage for young people, trying to decarbonise the grid in five years, and importing fiscally negative migrants is mad. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1883133046611947817/photo/1 [Source]

• 22 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Behold the socialist logic that drives our suicidal energy policies. Chris Stark, put in charge of decarbonising the Grid by Ed Miliband, says data centres vital for AI must be located not where it suits business, or where tech workers are, but where it suits the Grid (1/6). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1882020168668438744/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  His statement relates specifically to the NESO assumption that the carbon price will rise to an incredible £147t/CO2 by 2030. If he won’t endorse that assumption how can he possibly use the report to justify his policies? [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Extraordinary from Miliband in reply to @BradleyThomasUK yesterday. Miliband uses the NESO report to justify his claim he can decarbonise the Grid and also cut bills - not that the report says that - but in the same breath he disowns the basis of its calculation (1/2). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1879890271397429702/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  As long as the policy runs faster than the technology, and our energy costs are higher as a result than elsewhere, decarbonisation will unavoidably mean deindustrialisation. https://twitter.com/edconwaysky/status/1879849254203924857 [Source]

• 12 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @RobertJenrick: Why is Ed Miliband hiding the true cost of renewable energy? [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Miliband’s net zero zealotry means he is forcing policy to move faster than technology allows. He claims his policies improve energy security when the opposite is true - just as he says prices will fall when thanks to him they will rise. [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  The Government says “interconnectors will play an important role in the import and export of electricity to help us manage the peaks and troughs in our renewable energy generation.” [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Electricity imports accounted for 16pc of our power in the first 9 months of 2024, and reached 19pc in June. Labour’s plan to decarbonise the Grid by 2030, and reluctance to develop new domestic nuclear capacity or exploit our gas reserves, means we we’ll depend more on imports. [Source]

• 30 Dec 2024: Tweet

  Britain is suffering from progressive exceptionalism: the idea that we are uniquely sinful, and must atone by letting other cultures trump our own, accepting mass immigration, and destroying our industry through net zero unilateralism. My column today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/29/progressive-exceptionalism-national-self-flagellation/ https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1873738214881788020/photo/1 [Source]

• 05 Dec 2024: Tweet

  ????Climbdown alert!???? Starmer has gone from promising to decarbonise the grid 100% by 2030 to a new 95% target. Maybe he’s beginning to understand the dangers of the man he made Energy Secretary. They don’t end here. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1864630668224876946/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Nov 2024: Tweet

  @aaandrewloves She did that after I left and when I was in No10 my advice was always to put cost and security before any attempt to decarbonise. She said this in her early speeches. [Source]

• 05 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @ClaireCoutinho: Today @neso_energy published the advice that @Ed_Miliband commissioned on his target to decarbonise the electricity gri… [Source]

• 04 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Ed Miliband said his net zero zealotry would bring lower bills. Here’s the truth. Not just more expensive bills, but energy rationing for households and industry. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1853358980199858379/photo/1 [Source]

• 21 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Why will the Government do nothing about the international trading system? Countries aiming to run trade surpluses, such as China, hold down their labour costs and destroy industry in deficit countries such as ours. Trade wars, as two authors like to say, are class wars, and the Labour party usually likes to fight a class war, yet this Government want to flood Britain with cheap Chinese electric cars because of the Energy Secretary’s obsession with net zero. That is just one way in which our economic model needs to change, because while the Government’s characterisation of their inheritance is, I am afraid, cynical and wrong, there is a case for economic change, if only the Government were prepared to undertake it. I think the Business Secretary might be one of those capable of doing that, but I am not sure that some of his colleagues are. Today, Ministers could be launching a plan for reindustrialisation, for competitive energy prices, for domestic steel manufacturing and for a strategy taking in better infrastructure, skills and training, planning, regulatory reform and more— [ Interruption. ] Would the hon. Lady like to intervene?

  Full debate: Employment Rights Bill

• 13 Oct 2024: Tweet

  RT @NeilDotObrien: This week I asked Ed Miliband if he would publish a costing of his plans for a net zero grid (a costing was commisioned… [Source]

• 04 Oct 2024: Tweet

  RT @gavinantonyrice: ????NEW Conservative Reader!???? @david4wantage on rebuilding the Tories @CitySamuel on Labour & Net Zero @NeilDotObrien on… [Source]

• 22 Jul 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We need to question economic theory, challenge Treasury orthodoxy and think beyond the intellectual limits of ideological liberalism. Theories like comparative advantage have led us to offshore industry and grow dependent on hostile states, like China. But international trade is neither free nor fair, and net zero cannot mean sacrificing our prosperity and security. Being a services superpower is a great advantage, but alone it is not enough. We need a serious strategy to reindustrialise, narrow the trade deficit and rebalance the economy. We need to change and, in the months and years ahead, I look forward to debating how we do so.

  Full debate: Economy, Welfare and Public Services

• 13 Jun 2024: Tweet

  Starmer promises hikes in spending and no tax rises, no tax rises for working people but no changes to thresholds, to decarbonise the grid without the cash he said it would cost, more concessions from the EU but no giveaways, to protect pensions and tax them. The list goes on 1/2 [Source]

• 09 Apr 2024: Tweet

  The European Court of Human Rights is out of control. Citing the right to a private and family life it has granted itself the power to overrule national governments’ climate change policies. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-233206 https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1777735580534661304/photo/1 [Source]

• 22 Mar 2024: Tweet

  RT @TheConReaderSub: ????NEW Conservative Reader???? @CitySamuel on Rachel Reeves @FraserNelson on furlough @RupertDarwall on net zero @RobertJe… [Source]

• 19 Feb 2024: Tweet

  Higher energy costs mean industrial production transfers to countries with little or no environmental standards. My column today is how we need to get real about the net zero target - and the myth of international free trade: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/high-energy-costs-are-choice-and-act-of-national-self-harm/ https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1759489086430085165/photo/1 [Source]

• 27 Sep 2023: Tweet

  This is honestly risible. Wind is intermittent. Until we have battery technology of a kind that doesn't yet exist, wind needs to be backed by fossil fuels. Even the Climate Change Committee says we'll need oil and gas for a quarter of our energy in 2050. https://x.com/itvpeston/status/1707151988788469788?s=20 [Source]

• 18 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Starmer has opened up a dividing line on immigration that puts the Tories on the right side of the argument - and of public opinion. Now Rishi needs to do the same with net zero. My column today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/17/starmer-has-taken-his-first-misstep-it-wont-be-his-last/ https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1703689831170076978/photo/1 [Source]

• 08 Aug 2023: Tweet

  If net zero automatically meant “lower bills, good jobs and energy security” it wouldn’t even be a political issue. Of course the reality is complex with trade-offs Starmer doesn’t want to confront. This is not leadership. https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1688544941641703424 [Source]

• 02 Dec 2022: Tweet

  UK steel is uncompetitive thanks to our energy system and carbon tax policies. Excellent by @RianCFFWhitton: https://open.substack.com/pub/riancwhitton/p/the-riddle-of-british-steel?r=qsoa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1598664097612107778/photo/1 [Source]

• 23 Nov 2022: Tweet

  @MechaNonPlacet "We are a tiny little island with no relevance, and we must also unilaterally take on all the world's problems from climate change to war and peace to movements of refugees from France." [Source]

• 07 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Today we face a fiscal crisis, the Channel crossings, an energy crisis, inflation, illegal disruption by protesting radicals, demands for “reparations” for climate change, a war in Ukraine and more. And Westminster focuses on this. [Source]

• 04 Nov 2022: Tweet

  My co-editor got a new job this week! In the latest Conservative Reader: @Noahpinion on "undeveloping" countries @RianCFFWhitton on changing an economy @FraserNelson on net zero trade-offs @csjthinktank on helping families And the wisdom of Edmund Burke. https://conservativereader.substack.com/ [Source]

• 08 Aug 2022: Tweet

  The water companies offer a parable for our times. They all preached about net zero. They all gave out huge dividends for their owners while under-investing in infrastructure and leaving us unprepared for hot, dry summers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62463771 [Source]

• 13 Dec 2021: Tweet

  “It’s an urgent climate emergency!” “No, don’t cut emissions that way!” https://twitter.com/latimesopinion/status/1470091161985589253 [Source]

• 15 Nov 2021: Tweet

  If you argue that climate change is an extinction-level danger, your point is somewhat undermined if you rule out a technology that will cut carbon emissions and has no problems with intermittency. https://twitter.com/Greenpeace/status/1458434714973261824 [Source]

• 08 Nov 2021: Tweet

  With Royals giving their views and broadcast news “nudging” us, climate change policy is treated as above politics. But how we fight global warming is a huge call that must be debated - and it’s time to put the politics back in. My column today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/07/climate-change-should-not-depoliticised-fight-biggest-debate/ [Source]

• 19 Oct 2021: Tweet

  The Government is proposing unilateral net zero policies that will cost people a fortune and diminish their quality of life. Labour’s response is that they are not going far enough. [Source]

• 08 Oct 2021: Tweet

  Chinese climate change policy: "promote coal mines... accelerate commissioning of coal mines... promote rectification of coal mines... guarantee coal transportation... support coal power companies... tax deferment policy for coal-fired power companies." http://www.gov.cn/premier/2021-10/08/content_5641406.htm https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1446502091388768257/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Aug 2021: Tweet

  The climate change committee said releasing its calculations would be too time consuming and ‘cause confusion, and distract public debate’. It also said some of its analysis had been written over, and is therefore not preserved on its computer systems. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9870031/Judge-orders-quango-claim-1-GDP-hit-net-zero.html [Source]

• 02 Aug 2021: Tweet

  China is building a coal-fired power station every week, while six of Europe’s top ten carbon emitters are German power plants. We need a debate about the costs of Britain’s net zero policy, but all we get is a fait accomplis. My column today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/01/net-zero-zealots-take-no-notice-hardship-haste-will-cause/ [Source]

• 25 Jun 2021: Tweet

  Oh hi Jill. We haven’t met so I don’t know if intellectually dishonest and ad hominem attacks are your usual style. I’m very much aware of the Climate Change Act and remit of the committee. As somebody so keen on your reputation for knowing government... https://twitter.com/jillongovt/status/1408372035810738177?s=21 [Source]

• 24 Jun 2021: Tweet

  This tweet has been on the receiving end of the usual bad faith arguments. But decide for yourself whether questions of “fairness and the just transition” towards net zero are legitimately political questions for elected politicians or an unaccountable committee of technocrats. https://twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1408167212825841664/photo/1 [Source]

• 24 Jun 2021: Tweet

  The climate change committee thinks it’s above democracy. It set net zero targets with fantasy plans to meet them, and now berates ministers for taking time to engage with reality. And it unilaterally expands its remit to hold government to account and cover yet more policies. [Source]

• 17 Jun 2021: Tweet

  On almost any other broadcast outlet Rishi would have been pressed on why the Government isn’t going further and faster on net zero. Here he is pressed on the cost and distributional effects of the policy - a policy he is clearly sceptical about. This is the value of GB News. https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1405286563035025411 [Source]

• 10 Mar 2021: Tweet

  The dissonance between the net zero objective and government attitudes (which I share) to APD, fuel duty etc rather demonstrates the absurdity of claiming you can pursue net zero without pretty severe economic and social effects. https://twitter.com/jasongroves1/status/1369568682750451716?s=21 [Source]

• 01 Dec 2020: Tweet

  @jerryhayes1 I think Andrew Mitchell (good minister) stopped formal bilateral aid in the early days of the coalition. But it continued through multilateral programmes, schemes on things like climate change, and Osborne’s absurd op kowtow eg giving millions to promote playing football there. [Source]

• 25 Nov 2020: Tweet

  Great big dollops of common sense in here from James Frayne. It’s easy to glibly assert that climate change policies are popular among new Tory voters. The truth - and delivering future policy - is a lot more complicated. https://conservativehome.com/2020/11/24/james-frayne-so-how-should-the-conservatives-talk-with-working-class-voters-about-the-environment/ [Source]

• 08 Nov 2020: Tweet

  Commentators seizing on Boris’s words about an EU trade deal (exactly the same as before) and commitment to tackling climate change (ditto) as though No10 is now sucking up to Biden. Narrative journalism - never knowingly accurate. [Source]

• 05 Mar 2020: Tweet

  Wait a minute. You mean Extinction Rebellion is just the same old left-wing anti-western bullshit that’s using climate change to cloak its true agenda? You do surprise me. https://twitter.com/xrebellionuk/status/1235544656596828160?s=21 [Source]

• 27 Feb 2020: Tweet

  3 quick observations on Heathrow. We need more aviation capacity to be competitive and prosperous. It’s a problem that courts increasingly make political decisions. One reason they do is ambiguous/contradictory policy. Our climate goals are unrealistic yet nobody wants to say so. [Source]