My thoughts in Conservative Home on Donald Trump's take on the North Sea:
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Extract:
By now YouTube is pretty well stocked with excerpts of Sir Keir Starmer getting variously ridiculed, bashed and even roasted by Donald Trump during their recent Scotland trip.
As ever, The Donald held forth on a wide range of topics – and that included energy and the North Sea. Whilst those seeking subtlety and balance may have been left disappointed (oil good, wind bad), how far wide of the mark was Trump’s assessment?
The North Sea has got us out of a hole before. Had oil and gas revenues not kicked in during the early eighties, the Thatcher-era economic transformation might never have got off the ground. And following both the miners’ strike and Chernobyl, the early nineties ‘dash for gas’ met our power requirements for a generation. Let’s see what might be learned from the latest Trumpian doctrine.