It is wrong to personalise it because it is not about Ed Miliband alone: it was a wrong turning taken by most of the British political class. When Theresa May raised the target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 100 per cent – that is, achieving “net zero” emissions by the middle of the century – hardly an eyelid was batted.
It was the elite consensus of the time, only six years ago, but it had not been thought through. Now, the consequences of that decision are starting to work themselves out. That was what led, indirectly, to the emergency recall of parliament on a Saturday to legislate to retake control of British Steel.
