Dame Rebecca Harris, Member of Parliament for Castle Point, has put forward a motion in Parliament calling on the Labour Government to reverse their damaging energy policies.
The motion called on the Labour Government to scrap the Energy Profits Levy and end the ban on new oil and gas licences to approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields to increase our domestic energy supply. The North Sea provides half of the UK’s gas supply, supports 200,000 jobs and generates billions of pounds in taxes while we will continue to need oil and gas for decades.
Without action to make the sector more viable, the UK risks importing 82% of its gas by 2035 at higher cost and with higher emissions and the Energy Profits Levy will cost the Treasury more than it raises. This motion was voted down by Labour MPs in Parliament.
Ed Miliband's energy policies and banning new oil and gas licences are an economic wrecking ball, deindustrialising Britain in real time, driving up costs, driving away investment, weakening Britain’s energy security and destroying jobs in the North Sea. To bring bills down we need to cut the costs driving them up.
Rebecca is supporting the Conservative Party’s Cheap Power Plan campaigning to scrap Ed Miliband’s green taxes. British households pay some of the highest energy prices in the developed world and so we need to get drilling in the North Sea, scrap the North Sea taxes and axe Labour’s fuel tax rise. Only the Conservatives have the backbone to scrap Ed Miliband’s costly net zero taxes with a plan to maximise oil and gas production in the North Sea to create a stronger economy.
Rebecca will continue to lobby Labour Ministers in Parliament to change course and to adopt the Conservative Party’s proposals.
