Labour’s target voters overwhelmingly support scrapping expensive green policies such as boiler bans, a survey reveals. [emphasis, links added]
Pollsters Stonehaven found less than a third of those who left the party under Jeremy Corbyn but switched back at the election support cracking down on domestic flights.
And only 26 percent support a ban on gas boilers in new-build homes by 2025.
The poll will make sobering reading for Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, architect of Labour’s green policy.
However, 59 percent of those polled back accelerating new nuclear power.
It comes as the Treasury has been accused of “dragging its feet” over an investment decision on the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk.
Gary Smith, General Secretary of the GMB Union, said:
“Nuclear power is vital if we are to cut emissions and keep the lights on – there can be no net zero without new nuclear.
“Years of dither and delay have seen the UK slip from a world leader in nuclear to having all but one reactor offline in the coming years.”
Luke Betham, Head of Data Science at Stonehaven, commenting on the study, said:
“There’s a clear message to Keir Starmer from these voters.
“Bin talk of bans on boilers and back new nuclear.”
Top photo of a nuclear power plant by Markus Distelrath
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Unfortunately the Tories are to blame for this because they bought the “climate crisis” by swallowing the bait hook, line and sinker. They put the policies that the Labour Party is going forward with and the populace are now feeling the pinch on their wallets. And they are upset at the cost increase due to these requirements.
Please tell me why the photo is of a cooling tower.
If you do an internet search on “nuclear power plant photos” you will find they all have cooling towers. In most energy production cooling is required as the radiator in your internal combustion car.
I’ve just written to The Times drawing attention to the OBR’s £180bn subsidy to windmills by 2029/30 and right now 1.3 gigawatts output. The windless high will last to Tuesday. How will Millistupid hack that with windmills?
We don’t need or want any acres of Wind Turbines and Solar Panels which mar the landscape take up wildlife and pastureland and harms Birds and Whales