


How to frame the argument over clean power
An unlikely political lesson from Ed Miliband, Britain’s energy secretary
To see how much Ed Miliband is enjoying his second life in politics, watch him at the dispatch box. Every few weeks MPs get a chance to prod the energy secretary; they receive sharp jabs in return. Tories are lambasted for delaying the roll-out of cheap and popular wind turbines. Greens and Liberal Democrats are chided for appearing eco-er than thou and then blocking the pylons that would carry clean power to people’s homes. Mr Miliband picks fights with Reform UK, a flag-waving right-wing party, for failing to back GB Energy, a fledgling state-owned energy firm.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “We are the turbine-builders”

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