Ed Miliband announced total ban on fracking: comment

"Fracking is clearly controversial and was the straw that broke the camel’s back of the Truss administration. There is now a very clear dividing line on energy policy between fracking, opposed by twice as many people as support it, and solar farms which are backed by a clear majority.

"Anyone who’s paid an energy bill in the past few years knows gas prices are volatile and fracking in the UK wouldn’t change that. The build-out of British wind and solar is helping insulate the UK against these price swings with electric heat pumps meaning we’re increasingly less dependent on foreign gas imports to heat our homes."