Starmer 'fed up' with Trump and Putin causing energy bills to skyrocket Sir Keir Starmer has said he is "fed up" with Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin causing people's energy bills to skyrocket. In an interview with ITV's Talking Politics Podcast while in the Middle East, the prime minister said: "I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses' bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world and saying to families across the country, saying to businesses across the country: 'we've just got to be, we've got to put up with being on the international market'. "We need energy independence, and the only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we're not going to get it on the international market." Starmer has repeatedly used the war in the Middle East to advocate for greater energy independence, saying it boosts the case for renewable energy, such as solar power and wind turnines. But his critics, namely the Conservatives and Reform UK, are pushing for him to expand drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea, instead.
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