UK energy production has declined by 67pc over the past two decades.
That means we have gone from a position of being a net exporter of energy, creating jobs and tax in this country to importing around half of our energy.
British bill-payers are creating jobs and tax revenue in other countries instead.
How has this been allowed to happen?
The answer is simple: policies have been driven by the ideological pursuit of net zero to the detriment of energy security and ordinary taxpayers.
The rest of the world isn’t listening to UK politicians’ crowing about decarbonisation either.
From 1990 to 2024, the UK’s emissions declined by 50pc, while globally emissions have increased by more than 60pc.
We are now in a bizarre position where we shut down UK oil and gas fields and then import billions of pounds worth of liquefied shale gas from the US.
