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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says the government has "lost control" of the cost of people's energy bills and that it's "absolutely crazy that we're leaving our oil and gas in the ground". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So the biggest thing that we would do is scrapping the carbon tax. This is the single biggest thing
00:05that is adding to people's energy bills. I'm worried that Labour is mostly focused on the
00:10people who are on benefits. The truth is everybody is suffering. I'm pleased to see that they've
00:15responded to our calls to do something about heating oil. But the fact is they're still
00:19talking about increasing fuel duty. They're not doing anything about all of the levies
00:24on energy bills. The government has complete control when it comes to that. But most importantly,
00:30I think, given what's happening globally, we need to start drilling in the North Sea.
00:34It is completely crazy that we're leaving our oil and gas in the ground while importing
00:38it, including from countries that are digging and drilling in that same basin.
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