Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch told Tory peer Philippa Stroud that Ed Miliband had made this country poorer. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Britain’s net zero policies and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, have come under fire at a conference of conservatives, rightwing populists and wealthy US backers linked to Donald Trump.

The energy policies pursued by the British government were described as a “tragic mistake” by Trump’s energy secretary, one of a number of officials from the US administration attending the event.