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Now, why single out Ed Miliband, you might ask? Our political class has been obsessed with climate, and blasé about our living standards, for decades now. Wasn’t it the Tories who introduced the Net Zero target? Isn’t every Western nation, with some noble exceptions, singing from the same eco-extremist hymn sheet?
Sadly, that’s all very true. But Ed Miliband is more responsible than most for bringing eco-ideology to the mainstream. He served in Gordon Brown’s New Labour government in 2008. And as energy secretary he passed the landmark Climate Change Act, which set the world’s first legally binding decarbonisation targets. Miliband even pushed for them to be more stringent than the government had first intended, mandating emissions cuts of 80 per cent, rather than 60 per cent, despite having no idea or plan how to get us there.
Now, why single out Ed Miliband, you might ask? Our political class has been obsessed with climate, and blasé about our living standards, for decades now. Wasn’t it the Tories who introduced the Net Zero target? Isn’t every Western nation, with some noble exceptions, singing from the same eco-extremist hymn sheet?
Sadly, that’s all very true. But Ed Miliband is more responsible than most for bringing eco-ideology to the mainstream. He served in Gordon Brown’s New Labour government in 2008. And as energy secretary he passed the landmark Climate Change Act, which set the world’s first legally binding decarbonisation targets. Miliband even pushed for them to be more stringent than the government had first intended, mandating emissions cuts of 80 per cent, rather than 60 per cent, despite having no idea or plan how to get us there.