The Scottish Conservative Party has claimed that UK Labour’s plan to stop all new oil and gas projects will cost Scotland £6 billion.
At the weekend, the Sunday Times Of London reported that Britain’s opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer was close to announcing a block on new developments if Labour came to power, alongside plans to boost investment in renewables.
In January this year, at the Davos WEF summit, Starmer said there would be no investment in new oil and gas fields in Britain under a Labour government.
Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan aims to deliver “clean, homegrown onshore, offshore, solar, tidal, nuclear, and hydrogen so that we can get to net zero quicker and end our reliance on fossil fuel dictators around the world.”…