PM urged to reject Trump’s war and shift from fossil fuels
Responding to Keir Starmer’s speech this morning, the Scottish Greens’ external affairs spokesperson, Patrick Harvie, has urged the Prime Minister to end his complicity in Trump’s war on Iran and break the link between electricity and rising gas prices.
Patrick said:
“Keir Starmer says that this is not our war. But those are empty words as long as he continues to make UK infrastructure available to the US to carry out their illegal and immoral war, even as they openly threaten to commit war crimes on a mass scale by targeting life-critical civilian infrastructure.
“The UK should follow the lead of others like Spain, and refuse all cooperation with Trump's dangerous rogue regime.
“Recommitting to a renewable future is the right path. But it was galling to hear the Prime Minister expressing frustration with the high price of home energy bills when it's UK policy that closely ties the price of our abundant renewable energy to the price of gas.
“Scotland is already generating cheap, clean green energy, and billpayers should be seeing the benefit.
“There are reports that Ed Miliband is once again considering a change to this, and he really needs to take this long overdue action. It's in the interests of our climate security, national security, and everyone's household budget.
“Closer cooperation with the EU is an urgent priority, and it's about time that Labour caught up with that reality, and set about reversing the harm done by Brexit.
“The Prime Minister should be clear about his objectives - will he seek to rejoin the customs union, the single market, or give true leadership and begin talks to rejoin the EU itself?”
