When even green energy tycoons are telling him to embrace the North Sea oil and gas industries, Ed Miliband really is beginning to look somewhat isolated.

Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity and a Labour donor (as well as a former donor to Just Stop Oil, no less), has made an extraordinary intervention today, suggesting that the North Sea be offered the same subsidies as are granted to the operators of wind and solar farms. ‘It’s time for Labour to put its arms around the North Sea,’ he says.

‘Our North Sea is in decline, let’s protect it during the transition and optimise our use of resources that are left.’

Remarkably, that puts him more in line with the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, than it does with the government.

But Vince is not the only one to see the foolishness in the gov

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