00:00At the moment, instead of using North Sea gas, which Ed Miliband is keen to shut down,
00:04we're importing gas, which has four times more emissions.
00:07That makes climate change worse.
00:09Every time a business moves from the UK to a country still powered by coal,
00:13that makes climate change worse.
00:14So what he is doing is saying he's doing all these things in the name of emissions,
00:18but actually it's pulling it in exactly the wrong direction.
00:21And the piece that I have spoken about a lot at the moment is our electricity prices.
00:26If you want to decarbonise in the UK, you have to get people to adopt electric cars and electric home heating.
00:32And what Ed is doing is signing up to the highest offshore wind prices in a decade,
00:36much higher than the current cost of electricity.
00:39And he's going to make electricity even more expensive than it is.
00:42That is the worst thing for any decarbonisation agenda,
00:46which is why we've set out plans to cut electricity bills by 20%.
00:50And like I said, if Ed really cared about bills, he could do that tomorrow.
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