Ed Miliband is wrong. The greatest threat to climate action is not right wing billionaires buying up TV stations, as he said ahead of his conference speech today. It is expensive electricity.

Instead of tackling Britain’s world beating energy costs, Miliband used his speech to announce a ban on fracking – an empty gesture to block himself from something he had no intention of doing in the first place.

Britain does need more clean energy, but not at any price

The unfortunate reality is that Miliband’s sprint to get fossil fuels off the grid by 2030 will lock us into higher electricity prices and make it harder to decarbonise. Underpinning our future economic growth, and the thing that matters most for decarbonisation, is making electricity cheap and abundant. It is impossible to reach ne

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