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Labor MPS calls Richard Tice about the UKS plan reform to scrap green projects | Reform UK

Labor MPS calls Richard Tice about the UKS plan reform to scrap green projects | Reform UK


A group of almost 60 Labor MPs wrote to Richard Tice, which questioned the promise of the deputy leader of the UK reform to dispel environmentally friendly energy contracts if his party wins power and questions whether he knew the effects on the economy.

Under the direction of Polly Billington, the deputy East Thanet, signed by 58 others who have sustainable energy projects in their constituencies, Tice seemed to sign the growth potential of the green transition when he wrote to eight leading energy companies that were initiated for new contracts with the “significant” risk.

In the letter from the MPs, the growth of the economy of clean energy said in 2024 and asked Tice: “When they suspended these threats, did you know that they threatened one of the strongest growth drivers of the UK?”

In addition, estimates by the British industry in the industry in the industry of more than 950,000 well-paid jobs in Great Britain, many outside of London and southeast, was supported, and asked whether Tice saw the CBI as part of the “undisputed liberal progressive orthodoxy”, which he accused to promote the Net-Zero measures.

Tice's letter, which he tweeted, warned energy company against participating in the next series of offers to apply for guaranteed minimum prices for clean power supply, which are officially referred to as allocation round 7 (AR7).

If a government in Westminster led by Nigel Farage took power, Tice told the company that she would rate NET zero's obligations again and added: “As a first step, we will try to coordinate all contracts signed in the context of AR7. You should treat all long -term sources of income as politically and commercially insecure.”

In her letter, the Labor MP Tice asked whether he was aware that such contracts were not concluded with the government, but with the company with low carbon contracts, a private company that belongs to the department for energy security and NET zero.

They said: “This means that a potential future reform of the British government would not have the ability to” vote “contracts that were signed by this process, unless they are ready to destroy the trust of investors into the entire British industry by tearing contract law. Can you confirm whether it is a reform -Uk policy to dispel contract law? “

In an interview with the BBC on Thursday afternoon, Tice seemed to recall the specific obligation to scrap from AR7 contracts and said that a reform government would only put “any form of variation” for her, which his letter did not seem to make. When asked about the obvious change, Tice said: “Some people misunderstood the wording of the letter.”

The Junior Energy Minister Michael Shanks said Tice's letter and the subsequent interview were a “clown car economy”.

The scrap of projects for clean energy could be politically risky in view of the number of jobs you support. The Mayor of the Party for Hull and East Yorkshire, Luke Campbell, previously said that he would support such plans if they created jobs in the region.

The wider attitude of the party for the doubt of the climate change created by humans and the need to cope with it also contradicts the majority of voter views in Great Britain.

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In an interview with Times Radio on Thursday, the Lincolnshire reform said, Andrea Jenkyns, did not believe that climate change existed, and said it was just a “money earner bat” for some industries.

“Do I think that climate change exists? No,” said Joyns. Asked about the mass of evidence that show that it happened, she replied: “It depends on what evidence you look at … I think it is a way to actually make money.”

The letter from the Labor MP referred to other potential reforming and asked whether his attitude to green energy was shaped by donations from fossil fuel interests: “Has your party leader Nigel Farage's” Admission “by Wladimir Putin Putin played a role in the areas of Great Britain to stay in Great Britain To stay fossil fuel markets? ” “

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