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The Tories’ wind power delusion

The Tories’ wind power delusion

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

A very strange parliamentary rebellion has been taking place with Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and dozens of other Tory MPs demanding an end to the ban on onshore wind farms. Wind power is cheap and getting cheaper, they argue. And surely, if we’re engaged in an energy war with Russia, we need all the power we can get?

It’s an argument that is wrong several times over.

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