Rishi Sunak has slammed the Labour party’s energy policy, warning that its plan to end new licenses for North Sea oil and gas drilling would “jeopardise 200,000 jobs” during a tetchy session of the weekly prime minister’s questions in Parliament.
Sunak, the Conservative prime minister, told the Commons that the opposition party’s policy would undermine Britain’s energy security at a time of international conflict: “Despots like Putin are the only people who would welcome such a policy.”
Labour leader Keir Starmer meanwhile criticised the government for “spiralling mortgage rates” and rising bills, accusing Sunak of being more focused on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours than the economy, NHS and the UK’s asylum system.
Sunak insisted he had followed “due process and convention” over his predecessor Johnson’s resignation honours.
