Miliband vows to take on Net Zero critics

Energy secretary Ed Miliband said the UK would win the battle on its Net Zero policies as he highlighted the vital role of renewables in boosting energy security.

At a major global conference on the future of energy security staged in London, Miliband also said the UK’s commitment to clean power wasn’t only to address climate change.

“Low carbon energy can play a critical role in delivering energy security for many countries around the world, and it presents a solution to the issue of energy security that simply wasn’t true a decade-and-a-half ago,” he said.

At the event, organised by the International Energy Agency, Miliband was asked about the opposition Net Zero policies were seeing around the world.

“The critics will not shut up, I'm sure, but the critics need to know that if they want to fight about this, this government says, bring it on," he declared.

“Let's have the argument between cheap, clean renewables that give you energy security, lower bills, the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century against those who case is to stick with the expensive, insecure fossil fuels that gave us the cost of living crisis.”