Is the energy strategy a missed opportunity?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The government is publishing its long-awaited energy security strategy today, but Labour has criticised it for the strategy's lack of action on onshore wind, among other concerns. Has Boris wrongly buckled to backbenchers on a policy that would have been efficient and popular? Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman. Isabel argues that 'the failure of the Conservative government over the past - it's been more than a decade now - to address Britain's supply needs has come home to roost now'.

They also discuss the new revelations that Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murthy, holds non-domicile status, which means she doesn't pay UK taxes. Katy points out that there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing, but nevertheless that 'this story is going to roll on, as people try to work out how much tax have they effectively saved? And I think pressure will grow on that'.

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0:16.8	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast.
0:21.2	I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Boes and Isabelle Hardman.
0:24.8	So today the government's energy security strategy is due to come out.
0:29.1	Katie, what is the main thrust of the strategy?
0:31.8	So I think as we've spoken about privacy on the podcast, this is obviously a much
0:37.1	it's delayed to a degree this energy strategy and this is when it was first announced.
0:42.3	The idea was you would get it in a week or so's time and then there's been some
0:45.5	wrangling between the various departments. Bays, Treasury, also number 10.
0:50.0	I think Bays really pushing the net zero agenda and therefore renewables,
0:54.3	I think Boris Johnson very keen for nuclear and then the Treasury just looking at the various
0:58.4	bills and getting quite sweaty. So in terms of the main thrust of it, I think nuclear and wind
1:05.2	power, so ultimately I think number 10 have got their way in the sense of nuclear reactors
1:12.2	and in terms of figures, we're still waiting for the exact confirmation but you could have,
1:16.8	you know, as many as eight nuclear reactors obviously that does take time and therefore that is
1:22.4	more like a target for 2050 potentially, potentially learn something you're about to feel
1:28.1	impact of. Then I'll not wind. There's been lots of touring and throwing in terms of what
1:33.3	Tory MPs will accept on this and also within cabinet, you had grant shops just suggesting that
1:38.1	onshore wind turbines were an ISO which wasn't exactly on message when you have quasi-quart
1:44.0	tang, the business secretary giving interviews about, you know, how wind both offshore and onshore
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