Protesters demonstrating against fracking at the Tory Party conference in Blackpool in March
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LABOUR said it would ban fracking “once and for all” today as it vowed to fight the government’s plans to reintroduce the controversial practice.
The party intends to work with MPs who oppose fracking to force the government to maintain the ban, one of several issues to divide the Conservatives since Liz Truss became PM.
Ms Truss’s new administration’s environmental commitments have come under severe scrutiny in recent weeks as one of its first actions was to end England’s fracking ban, which has been in place since 2019 following a series of earth tremors.
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Hundreds of protesters rally outside global energy summit in London