Campaigners have reacted with fury as Liz Truss allows fracking today - despite her own Chancellor saying it won't solve the crisis.
The Tory leader is expected to axe a 2019 ban on the fossil fuel extraction process as part of a wider energy bills strategy, announced at 11.30am.
The Telegraph reported the change could be made quickly with a written statement to Parliament and the first permission requests for drilling could come within weeks.
