Drill, baby, drill the republican slogan of 2018 not exactly rishi sunak s policy in 2023, but not far off. the prime minister today announced that hundreds of new licences for oil and gas will be granted. good for energy security, he says, good for the environment, and better than shipping it halfway around the world. but will it bring down domestic energy prices and is the timing right? last week, a temperature buoy off the florida coast registered 38 degrees celsius 101 degrees fahrenheit. and in iraq, the cradle of civilisation, the euphrates is now so dry there are whole villages on the move. july was the hottest month on record. have we already reached the point of no return? good evening, it s energy week here in the uk. the prime minister has today made a big commitment to?the?oil?and gas? industry. the?government is intending to issue hundreds of new licences to max
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Strategy will? create more jobs, and is more sustainable. i am astonished that rishi sunak is doubling down on his failing and weak policy on climate action. businesses and individuals, families have suffered 13 years of failing tory energy policy. that has left us the worst hit of any western european country during this energy crisis. suddenly the cost of going green, in a cost of living crisis, has become a wedge issue. not solely in the uk, there is a similar dividing line in the us overjoe biden s policies towards oil and gas. last week, in spain the hard right gained ground, pledging to roll back climate commitments. do we have the time for that? the scientists and the forecasters say we are already missing targets we have set, and things will only get worse. so tonight on the last day of a record hot, july, we are going to spend the first half hour of the programme with an expert panel.
Reassurance from the prime minister and that is very much his agenda and examples of how he is pursuing that agenda. clearly, some of my colleagues don t feel they are very welcome on the journey, so the three of them have now decided to get off the bus altogether. find of them have now decided to get off the bus altogether. of them have now decided to get off the bus altogether. and how much of this is about the bus altogether. and how much of this is about policy, the bus altogether. and how much of this is about policy, and the bus altogether. and how much of this is about policy, and how- the bus altogether. and how much of this is about policy, and how much i this is about policy, and how much of it is about personality? obviously, borisjohnson has cut quite a divisive figure. he could have chosen to stay on and work with rishi sunak but he chose to resign. this is not about his own personal circumstances, rather funny wider policy debate? i circumstances, rather funny wid
Very pro brexit. indeed, he always has been. but you could see listening to him, how difficult it is going to be full rishi sunak to make him happy. actually, both by european standards and actually by the recent history of the governing conservative party, rishi sunak would consider himself very much on the right of the conservative party, but he too was very much in favour of brexit. he was an early supporter of brexit. he was an early supporter of borisjohnson and certainly would like to see a smaller state and lower tax. so you can see the difficulty that rishi sunak is going to face on the policy front because he would say were actually, there s probably not that much difference between me and sirjohn redwood in many ways. so clearly, there is an element of personality, as well as not delivering on policy, as sir john redwood and others on the right of the party would see it. it’s of the party would see it. it s interesting. of the party would see it. it s interesting, that di