I speak as an ex-miner and a net zero champion in this place. I remember a time when the Labour party stood shoulder to shoulder, side by side with the coalmining communities in our great country, but Labour’s treachery has taken a new twist. It has turned its back on the red wall and the coalmining communities. Does my right hon. Friend agree with the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband), who is not in his place, when he said in 2015, when his local Hatfield colliery was due to be closed, that we should not be importing coal for the Drax power station from places such as Russia and Colombia, and instead should be mining it on our own doorstep?
Called-in Planning Decision: West Cumbria
Proceeding contribution from
Lee Anderson
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 8 December 2022.
It occurred during Speaker's statement
and
Ministerial statement on Called-in Planning Decision: West Cumbria.
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