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Approving Jackdaw is just a distraction from Labour’s obsession with net stupid zero

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 4:47 AM · 1 min read
Approving Jackdaw is just a distraction from Labour’s obsession with net stupid zero — City AM, Atlanta Business news
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Labour may have approved the Jackdaw gas field, but it is still set on destroying our industrial base to save the planet. It’s another to engage in unilateral economic disarmament so China can sell us the cars we used to build. We must reverse this madness, licence drilling in the North Sea, and make energy abundant again, says Richard Tice At long last, Andy Burnham has had a good idea: lifting a policy from Reform UK. We’re delighted that the Prime Minister has seen the sense of our push to approve drilling at the Jackdaw gas field. If he’d like, we’d be happy to take some other decisions for him too. We could start with Rosebank. Jackdaw is an important first step in reversing Labour’s deliberate destruction of our North Sea industry, and towards energy security, but it is only that. The Rosebank oil and gas field could replace five per cent of Britain’s energy imports. Together, at peak, they’ll reach eight per cent: vital security of supply in a dangerous world. Undoubte

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