Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, Britain’s last two prime ministers, have both weighed in behind a Tory rebellion designed to end the de facto ban on new onshore wind farms — creating a fresh headache for the current premier, Rishi Sunak.
Simon Clarke, levelling-up secretary under Truss’s shortlived premiership in the autumn, has written an amendment to the government’s “levelling up and regeneration bill” which would end the existing block on land-based wind turbines.
Clarke argues that wind power is not only one of the cheapest forms of energy but would also improve Britain’s power resilience during a global energy crisis prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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