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Tony Lodge

Tony Lodge is a political and energy analyst. He is a former Editor of the European Journal and a former Chief of Staff to the Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. He has written regularly in the national and international media and appeared on national TV and radio covering energy policy issues.

Why the Chancellor must abandon the Carbon Price Support

21 November 2012 - Energy

It will penalise UK industry, and lose UK jobs and investment (particularly in manufacturing industry)
It will add £25 a year to average UK fuel bills and drive 30,000 to 60,000 households into fuel poverty
It will not have a significant impact on overall carbon emissions

The proposalThe UK is currently part of ...

Davey joins the table in the Coalition's gamble with UK energy policy

24 May 2012 - Energy

Writing in the early May edition of Liberal Democrat News the new Lib Dem Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, declared, “I was astonished to learn that we still get around a third of our electricity from coal and those power stations are coming to the end of their life, as are ...