Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has launched GB Energy

Ed Miliband has pledged to get Vladimir “Putin’s boot” off the UK’s “throat” with the government’s new company GB Energy.

The energy security and net zero secretary is today unveiled a plan to use the British seabed (owned by the royals) to build wind farms.

This will create renewable energy and eventually lead to lower bills for the public.

It comes after the energy crisis which rocked the nation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to Times Radio, Miliband said that renewable energy “is the cheapest form of power”.

He said: “That’s the key thing...Putin’s boot is on our throat, as Keir Starmer says, because we are exposed to those global fossil fuel markets.”

Along with much of Western Europe, the UK relied on Russia’s cheap fossil fuel exports for our energy supplies until 2022.

When Putin invaded Ukraine, the West wanted to isolate Russia as punishment.

It weaned itself off the cheap Russian supplies, subsequently........

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