DOMINIC LAWSON: What Starmer's North Sea plan would mean

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : So, under Keir Starmer, we face: lower, not higher salaries; less, not more, tax raised for public services; and higher, not lower carbon emissions.
44% : COP president Alok Sharma (pictured) was reduced to tears by the US, India, and China's refusal to pledge to abandon coal at the 2021 UN Climate Change summit in GlasgowThe Industrial Revolution -- roughly the 100-year period 1760-1860 -- meant, as one historian put it, 'the difference between the grinding poverty that had characterised most of human history and the affluence of the modern industrialised nations'.
43% : Reality check: at the 2021 UN climate change summit in Glasgow, the British chair of the event, Alok Sharma, was reduced to tears after the U.S., India and China all refused to sign up to any date by which they would abandon coal -- the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels.
41% : Our public services are heavily reliant on taxes levied on those producing oil and gas in British waters.

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