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We can now look forward to lining the pockets of overseas dictators, tens of thousands of British jobs disintegrating and increasing energy bills for the British people. Today, former Labour leader Ed Miliband, now energy secretary, ordered an immediate ban on new North Sea drilling for oil and gas, a decision that gets the heart of the net zero fallacy in the UK. We love to boast about the fact that we have cut carbon emissions by more than half since 1990. The Tories have been nearly as culpable in this foolishness as the Labour Party and Green lobby more broadly. While we’ve cut emissions s…

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