Former Climate Minister Graham Stuart has launched a strongly-worded attack on Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, arguing his plan to deliver a clean power system by 2030 was “intellectually dishonest or simply utterly deluded” and is based on a target that will be “impossible” to meet.

Speaking at a reception hosted yesterday evening by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), the Conservative MP, who was climate minister from 2022 until his resignation in April this year, said Labour’s clean energy target was unrealistic and would undermine inward investment to the UK.

“If you want to tell companies like Octopus [Energy], system operators, national and private companies what to do, you need to have a realistic, practical and credible pathway,” he said. “Because if you don’t, they either won’t invest, or they’ll pour money in the wrong ways, and we will wreck this country as an investment opportunity.”

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