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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Nick Timothy

• 02 Jun 2025: Tweet

  Yet more net zero insanity. Billions in subsidies for Drax to import millions of trees to burn. To give us energy twice the price of gas. Ludicrously, debating the law to introduce the subsidy, I was told I wasn’t allowed to name the company receiving it. My speech tonight: https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1929638324370870714/video/1 [Source]

• 02 Jun 2025: Tweet

  Unrealistic net zero goals exist across the public sector, increasing taxpayer costs. This story demonstrates the absurdity of forcing electrification on the whole economy. It’s a massive misallocation of capital and a diversion from what companies and services are there to do. [Source]

• 28 May 2025: Tweet

  We must get building again and stop adding more pressure on the grid with Net Zero. With the likes of Arm and DeepMind we have a technological advantage that must not be lost. This means relentlessly pursuing abundant, reliable, and cheap energy - the opposite of Labour policy. [Source]

• 23 May 2025: Tweet

  This makes a nonsense of Starmer’s claim that aligning with the EU will save £800 million. Like with their pursuit of renewables, and reconstruction of the grid, they are hiding the true costs of net zero. Their claims are already debunked. https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/1925120837541130287 [Source]

• 14 May 2025: Tweet

  This is Net Zero all over. More spending to stand still at best, and more likely go backwards. Imagine what we could do if Net Zero capital were invested - by the market or the state - in the things that would make us richer and stronger. [Source]

• 05 May 2025: Tweet

  Louise Haigh wants Labour to promise to reindustralise. Any MP making this argument while supporting net zero and Miliband’s energy policies is being dishonest. It’s the same old cycle of nonsense. [Source]

• 01 May 2025: Tweet

  The Energy Minister just told the Commons that the Government will not impose any new costs onto the ceramics industry. But we know they are going to increase the carbon tax, which will kill off energy-intensive industries. Does she even know what she’s doing? https://twitter.com/joerichlaw/status/1917707519318728874 [Source]

• 30 Apr 2025: Tweet

  @OpenRebe1lion @Artemisfornow @theresa_may You’re incorrect I’m afraid. I have always opposed net zero. It became the policy after I left government. [Source]

• 12 Apr 2025: Tweet

  British Steel ought to be a turning point. No more net zero unilateralism. No more self-indulgence on coking coal. No more naivety on Chinese trade. No more critical infrastructure in Chinese hands. But Labour want to let Chinese firms control our wind turbines. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1911140176040190220/photo/1 [Source]

• 09 Apr 2025: Tweet

  NHS net zero targets mean the East of England Ambulance Service must electrify its fleet. But the power grid is pretty much maxed out. The Trust cannot improve the electricity supply to its Barton Mills depot, despite spending hundreds of thousands. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1909979448423911563/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Apr 2025: Tweet

  Meanwhile, I have been asking the PM and defence and energy ministers for months: Who is in charge of the security of our offshore infrastructure? They can't even answer that. Miliband's net zero zealotry leaves us horribly exposed. https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-sabotage-undersea-cables-baltic-sea-europe-war/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=Europe%E2%80%99s%20new%20war%20with%20Russia%3A%20Deep%20sea%20sabotage [Source]

• 06 Apr 2025: Tweet

  Miliband's net zero zealotry leaves our energy supplies more exposed to attack than ever before. I've been warning about this since I was elected. Now our top spies are warning the Government too. I'm quoted in this important story today. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14575537/Brits-prepare-72-hour-survival-kit-Putin.html [Source]

• 06 Apr 2025: Tweet

  God, this is empty. Everything has changed, he says, which is why all his policies from before the change - from net zero to £5 billion in new business costs - are exactly the right thing to do. Like with his response to Ukraine, it's all grandstanding. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/05/keir-starmer-nobody-wins-from-trade-war/ [Source]

• 29 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @Hrushworth: Zarah Sultana MP slams the government for wanting to expand Heathrow because of the climate emergency, but is campaigning f… [Source]

• 27 Mar 2025: Tweet

  A former Climate Change Secretary writes. https://twitter.com/edwardjdavey/status/1905226156925763730 [Source]

• 22 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @gavinantonyrice: ????NEW Reader - We Can't Afford Luxury Priorities @CitySamuel on net zero @jonathan_hinder on who runs the government @… [Source]

• 20 Mar 2025: Tweet

  Freudian slip of the week in Parliament, as Lucy Powell tells the House that “net zero will lower jobs.” [Source]

• 18 Mar 2025: Tweet

  This is the truth. Net zero and climate unilateralism will destroy British industry, killing jobs, prosperity and our security. A sane energy policy is vital if we’re to reindustrialise and recover. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1901917402545209738/photo/1 [Source]

• 16 Mar 2025: Tweet

  When Miliband says we lead the world on climate change, this is what he means. When he says decarbonisation doesn't mean deindustrialisation, look at the numbers. When he says renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, compare our costs with those in America. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1901263207462776893/photo/1 [Source]

• 12 Mar 2025: Tweet

  All options except sacking Miliband, ending the net zero zealotry, and nationalising steel. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1899802311167221940/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @LoftusSteve: There's an important consultation by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) closing next month that could… [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Nor will such a radical programme reverse climate change. The report says by 2040 “global warming will likely be at or above 1.5ºC even in a global highest ambition scenario”. But we are less than 1% of global emissions. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The report recommends that the carbon price should be “sufficient to incentivise decarbonisation” and could include “a higher carbon price floor and/or linkages with the EU ETS”. This is Labour’s secret plan. It means higher costs for everyone. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  According to the CCC, “Environmental taxes such as carbon taxes could be used to incentivise households and businesses to shift towards low-carbon technologies”. But if successful in reducing emissions, even these extra taxes would likely fail to raise enough revenue. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The report is a Net Zero bombshell. Regardless of context - or what other countries are doing - it demands that the UK reduces emissions by 87% by 2040 compared with 1990s levels. While China builds coal-fired power stations, this means cutting 535 MtCO2e from 2038 to 2042. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1894696433585918139/photo/1 [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The Climate Change Committee has unveiled its next carbon budget. From eating less meat to pricing us out of family holidays, job-killing carbon taxes to lost agricultural land, the end of petrol cars and gas boilers too, it has everything you would expect and worse (1/n). [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Ed Miliband should be straight with the British people about what is being asked of them. Promises about Net Zero cutting energy bills by £300 are a sham. We need real scrutiny of the carbon budget framework, challenging its assumptions and deciding what will actually work. [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The CCC is monomaniacal by design, and stacked with people committed to the Net Zero religion. Their clear ideological bias means that evidence is framed in the most favourable way possible for advancing the green agenda. https://www.theccc.org.uk/about/ [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  While this is “advice”, no Government has ever rejected a carbon budget since the Climate Change Act was passed. Blindly accepting accelerated targets will transform how we travel, heat our homes, grow food, and manage land. This raises a host of problems. [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Lots on today but tomorrow the Climate Change Committee will set the next carbon budget, publishing targets to reduce emissions from 2038 to 2042. These targets will dictate many aspects of everyday life for the next seventeen years. This is no way to plan energy policy (1/7). [Source]

• 24 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Labour: decarbonisation does not mean deindustrialisation. Also Labour: https://www.ft.com/content/314066f9-3aa3-4de3-ac24-ab0dd5c2f34e?shareType=nongift UK steelmakers face £150mn annual bill from carbon charges, industry warns [Source]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]