00:00 The government has to be judged on its actions, not its words.
00:03 And in allowing the rough gas storage facility
00:06 to close in 2017, for a number of years
00:12 afterwards, completely the wrong decision.
00:14 They've cost the UK probably around about 1.7 billion
00:18 pounds.
00:19 We are in a situation where we're only storing around
00:23 about 2% of our annual demand for gas.
00:26 It's so far behind other countries.
00:28 Places like France, Germany, Holland, Italy,
00:32 they are storing between 25% and 37%
00:36 of their annual demand for gas.
00:38 And of course, that meant they were in a much better position
00:42 when it came to the energy shock as a consequence of Putin's
00:47 illegal invasion of Ukraine.
00:50 The government has completely failed on energy security.
00:55 And yet again, it's the way in which
00:56 they've made this cost of living crisis even worse.
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