I advised Boris to expand offshore wind – but we now need to pause our renewables rollout and scrap the 2030 clean power target. Ed Miliband is wrong. The greatest threat to climate action is not right wing billionaires buying up TV stations. It is expensive electricity. 🧵 Underpinning growth - and the thing that matters most for decarbonisation - is making electricity cheap and abundant. It is impossible to reach net zero without electrifying almost everything. Businesses and consumers will only switch if we make it a cheaper and better option.

There's a lot of great stuff in the Planning Bill.

But having now seen it in full: here's why I'm concerned that in its current form, it does not deliver on the PM's promise of "no more £120m bat tunnels"🧵 The Government wants to shift to a strategic approach to nature conservation. This is a very good thing - both for nature restoration and getting stuff built. Our site by site conservation approach is not protecting British nature and is why we have mad bat tunnels/fish discos

The focus from Conservative leadership candidates today on getting Britain building again is hugely welcome. We need more homes, transport links, and clean energy asap.

But there’s some confusion about net zero 🧵 Renewable energy is cheap and getting cheaper. The historic costs of renewables are not the future costs of renewables – i.e. many of the subsidies that were put in place that have added costs to bills e.g. Feed in Tariffs have now been removed precisely because costs have fallen

1/ Rishi Sunak’s Government has a track record of delaying the energy infrastructure we need to cut bills, dithering over the transport infrastructure we need to boost growth, and failing to deliver the planning reforms we need so young people can get on the housing ladder 2/ At the very moment the US, the EU, China and others are investing trillions in building new clean industries, the Government now appears set to inject more uncertainty for businesses and put Britain further behind our rivals

1/ Since leaving Number 10, I have been building a new campaign focused on tackling Britain's biggest problem: economic growth (or at least, the lack of it.)

Introducing @BritainRemade 2/ The typical British family is now £6.8K worse off than a German family, £13.5K worse off than an American family, and, if we continue our current trajectory, is set to be poorer than a Polish family by the early 2030s.