The government has ruled out rationing energy in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Grant Shapps. The cabinet minister’s comment came after Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds said the government should consider rationing oil and gas – but later changed his position.
Asked on BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme if it is a “good idea” for the UK to look into energy rationing, Mr Shapps said: “No, I don’t.” Pressed on whether he can “completely” rule out such a move in the UK, the Transport Secretary added: “Yes, I can. It’s not the route that we want to go down.”
Shadow business and energy secretary Mr Reynolds originally told the same programme that the government should be making plans in private to ration gas and oil. Asked about taking such steps, the Labour MP said: “We should be making those plans and the Government should be preparing, not necessarily in public, for that situation.
