The race is on for affordable energy for the UK’s homes and businesses
War in Ukraine has focused ministers’ minds on how to get enough affordable energy for homes and businesses. …
Downing Street sources told me that with oil prices so high, there were things “we would have dismissed before that we can’t dismiss now” – and while their end goal is new sources of energy, “in the transition period we need to pump more oil and gas of our own” and it’s “in that context we should look at fracking”.