Claire Coutinho
@ClaireCoutinho • 47,185 subscribers
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey elected in 2019.
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Today I'm launching the most detailed energy analysis ever produced in British politics. It compares the cost of a Net Zero electricity grid to one that prioritises cheap power. The Cheap Power system saves consumers £320 billion and is still 80% clean.
Claire Coutinho224,423 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce
Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries. Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled. We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports. We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.
Claire Coutinho828,934 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Labour promised to cut energy bills by £300. They’re on their way to being £400 higher instead. Energy bosses have said that even if gas was free in 2030, electricity bills would still INCREASE because of all the extra hidden costs Labour are adding to the system.
Claire Coutinho78,912 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
It’s time to end the de facto ban on air conditioning. Only 3% of British homes have air con compared to 90% of homes in the US, or Japan. We need to overturn our miserabilist approach to energy which says we alone can’t have air con or AI. Let’s Make Britain Cool Again 🇬🇧
Claire Coutinho436,215 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
An absolute must watch. Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP. Ed Miliband’s plan means more grid, more expensive renewable subsidies, more paying wind farms to turn off.
Claire Coutinho1,238,804 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
On 2nd June I raised concerns about the security of our electricity grid. I was told by Ed Miliband that I was scaremongering. Since then I have been contacted by a whistleblower within our grid operator, the NESO. They allege that operators are being instructed to hide information that shows the grid is not being operated securely. Worse, they allege that Corporate Affairs interefered with operational decisions to stabilise the grid - risking blackouts to protect NESO's reputation. Despite this coming from within the operator, the Minister doubled down on calling this ‘scaremongering’ rather than wanting to know the truth. This Government is asleep at the wheel. They must urgently investigate these allegations.
Claire Coutinho244,170 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Last night we voted against Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. Why? Watch this. Not a single Labour MP could say what it will mean for the cost of food or energy for our constituents - or for British jobs and industry. They’re going to spend hundreds of billions of pounds of YOUR money and they didn’t even seem to care what it will mean for you. Parliament should be better than this.
Claire Coutinho270,182 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
We just forced a vote in Parliament to stop the Puberty Blocker trial. The Government voted it down. These children are perfectly healthy. They need our care and support - not to be experimented on with life-changing drugs. Expertly argued by my colleague Dr Caroline Johnson MP
Claire Coutinho248,204 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
This is extraordinarily misinformed. Ed Miliband just bought offshore wind on a twenty year contract at a HIGHER price than gas power is now during an energy price spike. They are locking us into crisis-level prices for decades. That’s what they call ‘control’.
Claire Coutinho529,279 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Many couples work hard, but cannot afford to have another child. Yet from this week, they’ll be paying more in tax so that couples on welfare with four, five, or six children receive more in benefits. This is not fair. It is not compassionate to make welfare pay more than work.
Claire Coutinho454,740 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Why is Ed Miliband hiding the secret energy deal he signed with China? I just asked him to publish the full text of the deal he signed with the Chinese Communist Party last year. His response? To call it a 'wacky conspiracy theory'. So here are the facts👇🏾
Claire Coutinho607,979 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
The green lobby need to give their heads a wobble. Electricity that is 80% clean but a THIRD cheaper is better climate policy. Why? It makes electric cars and heating affordable for ordinary families. They would rather make electricity expensive, then force people to buy them.
Claire Coutinho69,688 görüntüleme • 23 gün önce
Watch this. We currently pay £1.5 billion a year to switch wind farms off when it's too windy. Rachel Fletcher from Octopus Energy has just told Parliament that could soar to £10 BILLION by 2030. Ed Miliband is writing cheques for wind farm developers before the grid can move their energy to where it’s needed. This is a political choice and it is making electricity expensive. Government needs to wake up to what their plans are doing to our energy prices and make electricity cheap.
Claire Coutinho178,128 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Oh dear... I think I touched a nerve👀 Ed Miliband said I was ‘scaremongering’ because I asked who was responsible in the event of a blackout and what repercussions there would be. That’s because on the 2nd May our grid suffered a significant, sudden frequency loss. This could result in nationwide blackouts. Ed’s policies are making our grid more unstable, more unpredictable, and more expensive to balance. Who pays? You, the consumer. And weirdly, he doesn’t seem to know who is accountable. Ofgem? NESO? DESNZ? We need to know who is in charge and what accountability they will face for a more unreliable and costly electricity grid. It shouldn’t be this hard to answer a simple question.
Claire Coutinho198,049 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce