KEMI BADENOCH’S major energy campaign policy unravelled today when she admitted that oil and gas drilling will not lower bills.

The Tory leader is due to launch the party’s climate-destructive Get Britain Drilling campaign today, aimed at maximising the use of the country’s oil and gas reserves.

At the heart of the party’s proposals is the promise that it will bring down the spike in energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East.

But when challenged whether drilling in the North Sea would lower bills on BBC TV, Ms Badenoch admitted: “The drilling isn’t going to go directly onto people’s bills.

“I’m not saying that once you drill oil and gas in the North Sea, it’s going to go straight on to your bills.”

Ms Badenoch’s three-point plan to “get Britain drilling” includes an end to the moratorium on new oil and gas licences, ditching the windfall tax on energy profits and more financial support for the fossil fuels industry.

Labour Party chair Anna Turley said: “Kemi Badenoch’s energy policy has completely fallen apart. She’s been forced to admit her central energy intervention won’t bring people’s bills down.

“And she can’t say whether she’d support families who might need help.”

Tessa Khan, executive director of campaign group Uplift, said the Tory plan would do nothing to lower bills and accused Ms Badenoch of “peddling a dangerous fantasy.”

She said: “Politicians who refuse to acknowledge the reality of the declining North Sea [resources] are endangering our security and economy.

“Not only that, they are betraying workers who need long-term, secure jobs – which will only now come from renewables, not some pipedream.

“This is vapid political game-playing at the expense of ordinary people.”