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Red Wall Chair Joins Labour MPs Calling For Net Zero Rethink
Red Wall Chair Joins Labour MPs Calling For Net Zero Rethink
Energy
The chair of the Red Wall caucus of Labour MPs has called on ministers to keep British oil and gas in the energy mix as the government's net zero policy comes under backbench pressure. 
The Path to Net Zero: A special report to mark Net Zero Week 2026 Partner content
Environment
By Total Politics Impact
The Path to Net Zero: A special report to mark Net Zero Week 2026
Ex-Energy Minister And Burnham Ally Says Tony Blair Is Wrong About Net Zero
Energy
Ex-Energy Minister And Burnham Ally Says Tony Blair Is Wrong About Net Zero
China And Clean Energy: Is Britain Swapping One Dependency For Another?
Energy
China And Clean Energy: Is Britain Swapping One Dependency For Another?
Private Sector Offered To Lend Government Experts To Help Design Energy Bill Support
Energy
Private Sector Offered To Lend Government Experts To Help Design Energy Bill Support
Rail And Bus Fares Should Be Cut To Protect Public From Iran Petrol Spike, Says Ed Davey
Economy
Rail And Bus Fares Should Be Cut To Protect Public From Iran Petrol Spike, Says Ed Davey
PM Warns Reopening Strait Of Hormuz 'Will Not Be Easy'
Economy
PM Warns Reopening Strait Of Hormuz "Will Not Be Easy"
Opinion
Safely, securely, and responsibly managing the UK’s low-level radioactive waste Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Nuclear Waste Services
Safely, securely, and responsibly managing the UK’s low-level radioactive waste
Securing the Legacy of Britain’s Nuclear Pioneers Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Securing the Legacy of Britain’s Nuclear Pioneers
Shaping our nuclear future Partner content
Energy
By Great British Energy – Nuclear
Shaping our nuclear future
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Environment
Burnham's ban on spads speaking to journalists is absurd and unworkable
Burnham's ban on spads speaking to journalists is absurd and unworkable
By Peter Cardwell
Political parties
Farage Says He Is “Open-Minded” About Deal With Restore Britain
Farage Says He Is “Open-Minded” About Deal With Restore Britain
Political parties
How Could Andy Burnham Pay For His Policy Pledges?
How Could Andy Burnham Pay For His Policy Pledges?
Economy
Dame Prue Leith: living and dying well Partner content
Dame Prue Leith: living and dying well
By Total Politics Impact
Social affairs
“She dared to be a Daniel, she dared to stand alone”: Tributes to Ann Widdecombe
“She dared to be a Daniel, she dared to stand alone”: Tributes to Ann Widdecombe
By Lord Alton, Baroness Hoey & Baroness Browning
Obituaries
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Anas Sarwar: 'I'm Not Willing To Wait For Someone Else To Fix Our Problems'
Energy
Anas Sarwar: "I'm Not Willing To Wait For Someone Else To Fix Our Problems"
Sienna Rodgers talks to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar about the UK government’s ‘teething problems’, a bespoke immigration solution for Scotland and how to fight Reform
Interview: Joe Fortune, the quietly powerful Co-operative Party general secretary
Economy
By Sienna Rodgers
Interview: Joe Fortune, the quietly powerful Co-operative Party general secretary
An actual giant of the labour movement? Sienna Rodgers speaks to the tall and quietly powerful Co-operative Party general secretary, Joe Fortune. Photography by Elio Zhang
A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Environment
By Tali Fraser
A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Is a trawler’s worth of fish getting in the way of our nuclear ambitions? Tali Fraser investigates something fishy going on around Hinkley Point C
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Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Landmark decommissioning milestone reached at Trawsfynydd
Major milestone at Trawsfynydd as a 20-year decommissioning programme ends, completing work on the highest hazards and paving the way for the next phase.
Scotland's industrial future Partner content
Energy
By Forth Ports
Scotland's industrial future
Scotland’s industrial future depends on energy balance, planning reform and offshore wind delivery.
Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Sellafield pioneers safer, smarter ‘flat pack’ approach
Sellafield has shown a new remote method to cut up contaminated gloveboxes, improving safety and making waste easier to store.
The energy bills support package must do more than deal with current volatility
Energy
By Polly Billington MP
The energy bills support package must do more than deal with current volatility
The decision by the Chancellor last year to move some of the policy costs of the green energy transition into general taxation was welcome, cutting the average annual bill by around £150.
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Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
NRS socio-economic funding supports 129 UK community projects
Almost £2 million was invested by NRS last year in socio-economic initiatives, supporting good causes in communities local to its 14 decommissioning sites.
The UK's critical whole energy system Partner content
Energy
By Port of Milford Haven
The UK's critical whole energy system
Energy security concerns amid global instability underline the urgent need for a whole-system approach – integrating oil and gas, hydrogen and renewables – to deliver a resilient future
Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Nuclear Waste Services
LLW Repository Environmental Safety Case submitted to the Environment Agency
NTS delivers landmark HALEU shipment, reinforcing global leadership in advanced nuclear fuels transport Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Transport Solutions
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
NTS delivers landmark HALEU shipment, reinforcing global leadership in advanced nuclear fuels transport
Nuclear Transport Solutions delivers landmark HALEU shipment, reinforcing global leadership in advanced nuclear fuels transport
Partner content
Economy
By Chemical Industries Association
Q1 2026 CIA Business Survey: Dramatic change of policy direction needed to save Britain’s chemical industry
The latest business survey from the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) exposes a sector facing unprecedented pressure, with soaring energy, raw material and trade related costs pushing many UK chemical businesses to the brink. Already contending with long standing competitive disadvantages at home, the industry is now being hit by global instability and sharply rising input prices, deepening concerns over further site closures, lost investment and the long term viability of one of Britain’s most strategically important manufacturing sectors.
NTS engineers adapt ship for new nuclear transport package Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Nuclear Transport Solutions
NTS engineers adapt ship for new nuclear transport package
Now is the time to strengthen the UK's longer-term fuel resilience Partner content
Energy
By Fuels Industry UK
Now is the time to strengthen the UK's longer-term fuel resilience
As conflict in the Middle East sharpens the UK’s energy security concerns, ministers should use this year’s Finance Bill to extend the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to refined products and protect vital domestic refining capacity
We need energy sovereignty now – which means oil and gas
Energy
By David Smith MP
We need energy sovereignty now – which means oil and gas
In 1953, Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown as prime minister of Iran in an Anglo-American coup.
The UK is at risk of turning its back on its tides
Energy
By Alistair Carmichael MP
The UK is at risk of turning its back on its tides
Does this government want to lead the world in green energy innovation? On at least one front, the jury is still out.
Britain can’t drill its way out of this oil shock – here are five better ideas
Energy
By Nick Davies
Britain can’t drill its way out of this oil shock – here are five better ideas
Since the beginning of the war in the Gulf, gas prices have risen over 80 per cent and petrol and diesel prices have hit eye-watering highs.
Fears that data centres will hog energy are overdone - they will revive our economy
Economy
By Kenneth Stevenson MP
Fears that data centres will hog energy are overdone - they will revive our economy
The government must be bolder on the energy crisis
Energy
By Polly Billington MP
The government must be bolder on the energy crisis
This Labour government must emulate the boldness shown by Gordon Brown nearly two decades ago and convene an International Energy Summit.
Energy switching has failed – regional public ownership is the answer
Energy
By Chris Hayes
Energy switching has failed – regional public ownership is the answer
The UK is now in the midst of its second fossil fuel price spike in five years, exposing again how woefully underprepared the country is.
Government needs to take cyber security in our energy system seriously
Defence
By Saqib Bhatti MP
Government needs to take cyber security in our energy system seriously
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill must go further to bolster our energy security in the face of growing digital threats.
The North Sea still matters
Energy
By Graeme Downie MP
The North Sea still matters
North Sea extraction won't bring down energy bills or fund government subsidies. But, done responsibly, it has a role to play in our national security.
PM Says Iran Conflict Is 'Not Our War'
Energy
PM Says Iran Conflict Is "Not Our War"
Keir Starmer has reiterated that the conflict in Iran is "not our war" and the UK is "not going to be dragged into it" as the government tries to protect households from the economic impact of the conflict.
Would New North Sea Drilling Protect Households From The Iran Energy Shock?
Energy
By Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
Would New North Sea Drilling Protect Households From The Iran Energy Shock?
There are growing calls, including from US President Donald Trump, for the UK to allow new drilling in the North Sea in response to the spike in energy prices triggered by the Iran war. How much difference would it make?
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Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Nuclear Transport Solutions
Third and final shipment of vitrified waste from the UK to Germany
Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) are making preparations for the third and final return of high-level waste (HLW), in the form of vitrified residue, to Germany.
Britain quit coal – so why are our pensions still funding it?
Economy
By Lord Sharkey
Britain quit coal – so why are our pensions still funding it?
For more than a decade, the UK has spoken with rare political unity on one issue: thermal coal has no place in a modern economy.
Hunterston B power station moves to NDA group as decommissioning gears up Partner content
Energy
By Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Hunterston B power station moves to NDA group as decommissioning gears up
The UK Government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is set for the biggest transformation in its 21-year history next month, as a major Scottish nuclear site is transferred to its ownership for decommissioning.
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