A former Conservative minister has attacked her own party, praising Labour for its “sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership” while applauding leader Keir Starmer for his green energy ambitions.
Claire Perry O’Neill, who served as UK minister for energy and clean growth in Theresa May’s Cabinet before leading the UK’s Cop26 team until she left politics in 2020, said that she has not joined Labour, but has left the Conservatives, saying she is “no longer a member of any political party.”
She also described the Conservatives as “a party dominated by ideology and self-obsession.”
O’Neill wrote a piece in The Times Of London on Monday, focused on the energy sector, climate change policy, and the EU and claimed that “incrementalism and ideology” in her former party had “hollowed out our world-class nuclear energy industry which can provide much of our baseload power needs.”…