Ed Miliband, Labour’s energy security and Net Zero secretary, is known to be hapless and gaffe-prone. He’s the man behind the Ed Stone, the most ridiculous stunt of the 2015 election. A man whose struggles to eat a bacon sandwich are notorious. He’s easily one of the most disastrous Labour leaders of recent times. But what if he’s worse than just useless? Here, Fraser Myers explains why Miliband could be the most dangerous politician in Britain today. Miliband is convinced his green agenda will deliver us to sunlit uplands. But his plan to ban oil and gas, and to rapidly roll out renewables, is bound to lead to ruin. Net Zero is a deeply reactionary project that will turn back the clock on the great gains of modernity – and in Miliband it has found its most zealous and idiotic exponent.

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