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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Toby Helm Political editor

Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’

UK energy secretary Ed Miliband in Downing Street
UK energy secretary Ed Miliband said Britain needs to free itself from a dependence on overseas oil and gas suppliers as a matter of ‘national security’. Photograph: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Ed Miliband has torn into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous “nonsense and lies” by suggesting the UK’s net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain’s businesses, including its steel industry.

Cabinet ministers are determined to fight back against the way Reform UK and the Conservatives have unceremoniously lambasted the climate crisis agenda for what they believe are nakedly political reasons before important local elections next month.

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