Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband

Labour — Doncaster North

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 May 2026

Debate

Energy Security

Contribution

I will not give way. [Interruption.] I will later on. What a sorry state of affairs: the shadow Secretary of State cannot even agree with herself. There was a gaping contradiction at the heart of the shadow Secretary of State’s speech just now. For all the verbiage—for everything she said—she has no answer to the crisis before us, because even she cannot seriously believe what she is putting forward. The idea that new exploration licences for oil and gas will solve our energy security challenges is obviously nonsense. According to the National Energy System Operator, new licences will make no material difference to capacity and therefore security of supply. Nor will new drilling take a single penny off bills. Members should not take my word for it. When asked if new oil and gas would cut bills, the shadow Secretary of State said new licences “wouldn’t necessarily bring energy bills down, that’s not what we’re saying.”

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