The comments were made at an event hosted by the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs, which has reportedly taken funding from oil giant BP for decades.

Rishi Sunak's Treasury has reportedly been "blocking" green policies on infrastructure and home insulation.

A University of Aberdeen spokesperson said its decision to divest was part of a commitment to provide leadership on sustainability issues and support a "just transition" for the energy sector.

Jim McMahon said it was not the "right approach" in a panel discussion at Labour's party conference in Brighton.

Shadow business secretary says the government has no plan for net zero, leaving the country “bumbling around”.

Alan Whitehead said he supported Drax’s burning of trees for energy, despite criticism over its climate impact.

The Green Party accused Labour of helping the biomass energy producer engage in "green spin of the worst kind".

The government still contains four ministers who criticised “government-subsidised green technology” back in 2012, but one of them seems to have changed his mind about state intervention since then, and there are some new environmentally-friendly faces around too.

The union dubbed plans to shift away from fossil-fuelled heating “utterly absurd”, a statement one union member called “disappointing”.

The Global Warming Policy Forum has a “laughable record of inaccurate and misleading claims” about climate and energy policy, said one expert.