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Kemi Badenoch Launches Campaign to Expand UK North Sea Drilling
The campaign includes ending the moratorium on new licences, removing the windfall tax, and increasing financial support for fossil fuel firms to reduce energy costs.
- On Monday, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will visit an Aberdeen oil rig to launch her "Get Britain Drilling" campaign, proposing an end to the moratorium on new oil and gas licenses and removal of windfall taxes on energy profits.
- Rising energy prices, exacerbated by the Strait of Hormuz blockade, prompted the push to maximize domestic reserves, as Badenoch claims the policy shift is essential for "energy security, it's about financial security, it's about national security."
- Campaign group Uplift executive director Tessa Khan branded the strategy a "vapid, political game at the expense of ordinary people," citing research showing North Sea licenses granted under the previous government produced just 36 days worth of gas.
- Energy Minister Michael Shanks MP criticized the proposal, accusing Badenoch of wanting to "plunge Britain headfirst into war without a second's thought about the consequences," and alleged she is "completely unfit for high office."
- Labour intends to lower bills next week by investing in clean, homegrown power, while Badenoch claims the government's refusal to issue new licenses proves "Ed Miliband is now running the Government.
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Total News Sources12
Leaning Left6Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Left
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- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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