REVEALED: Damning report exposes radical views of Britain's new 'Net Zero Ice-Queen'

A damning new report has exposed the radical views of Britain's new Net Zero Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh.

Since being appointed by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and entering office, Ms Fahnbulleh has said very little about her ideas.

Before entering Parliament only in 2024 at the last election, Ms Fahnbulleh held the role of chief executive at the left-wing think-tank, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), for a full six years to 2023.

The NEF’s first mission statement is to "build a fast and fair transition to a green economy through a deep and equitable transformation to address the climate crisis".

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Her strong left-wing credentials, exposed by Facts4EU's report, are also demonstrated by the NEF’s third mission statement to "shift power to people and communities through democratic ownership of the economy and devolving political power."

In 2019 she wrote an essay for the Foreign Affairs magazine that said the UK should strive to hit Net Zero by the mid-2030s.

However, the official Government target for zero carbon emissions is 2050.

She called for a "global green new deal” that would see “massive mobilisation of resources to decarbonise and at the same time create millions of jobs and lift living standards”.

She has also previously warned against approving new oil fields.

In 2022, she wrote on Twitter: "To have a shot at staying within 1.5C global warming, we can’t have any new oil or gas fields. It’s irresponsible and shortsighted to be funding new fossil fuels when we need to be getting to Net Zero fast."

Shortly after taking her position as Net Zero Secretary, Ms Fahnbulleh avoided answering any questions directly on North Sea oil development, instead telling Times Radio: "I think it is about pragmatism."

Speaking on her appointment, Lord Redwood, former Secretary of State, exclusively told GB News and Facts4EU: "There is nothing coming from her to offer us relief from ever-rising energy bills under Labour."

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He said: "There is no recognition of the madness of shutting down much of UK industry through penal carbon taxes, emissions charges and windfall taxes, only to import oil, gas, and high-energy-based products from abroad.

"Her policies, like her predecessor's, mean more world CO2, not less. They mean paying big tax bills to foreign governments for all the imports instead of collecting tax at home for our purposes.

"The Prime Minister offering a temporary cut in VAT on electricity will come nowhere near offsetting yet another rise in our energy bills this autumn.

"A fair policy needs to start with much reduced migration. We should not allow more people into our country when we cannot provide enough decent homes for them and for the settled population."

Lord Redwood added: "The new Net Zero Secretary has spent several years thinking bad thoughts. She seems to believe nationalising our energy businesses would bring us plentiful affordable energy by eliminating profits and private capital.

"Past experience suggests the opposite. It would heap more state debt on us. There would be borrowing to buy up the assets. There would be more borrowings to put in the new and additional capacity needed.

"The last thing we want is nationalised HS2 levels of incompetence, delay and overspend when building new power stations or new electricity cable networks. Taxpayers would have to pay the interest on the debt and the eventual repayments of it. All that borrowing could drive interest rates up giving us dearer mortgages and hitting businesses.

"The last Secretary of State left a totally inadequate grid close to delivering blackouts. There is no sign the new one sees the seriousness of the problems or has any idea where to find the huge sums needed to fix it through her preferred way of sending the bills to taxpayers."

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