The chance of blackouts this winter is a “direct outcome” of Tory power coverage, Ed Miliband has claimed.

Mr Miliband, a former Labour chief and the occasion’s present shadow local weather and web zero secretary, mentioned successive governments “banning onshore wind, stalling on power effectivity and failing on nuclear” had led to “greater payments and reliance on imports”.

However Greg Fingers, a former Tory power and local weather change minister, accused the opposition of “nonsense”.

“On nuclear, it was Labour who in 1997 mentioned they ‘may see no financial case for brand spanking new nuclear energy stations’, which set the UK again a era,” Mr Fingers mentioned.

“On power effectivity, Ed and Labour left workplace in 2010 with solely an appalling 14 per cent of UK houses being rated within the prime brackets (A-C) for power effectivity – now that determine is 46 per cent and rising. There may be nonetheless a lot to do right here – however we are going to take no classes from Labour.”