How Will the New UK Prime Minister Address Net Zero?

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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

On a recent Price of Business, Host Kevin Price visited with Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

Andy Burnham is the frontrunner for UK Prime Minister following Keir Starmer’s resignation. His rise reflects an electorate exhausted by a rapid revolving door of Prime Ministers—an instability directly fueled by failing, hypocritical energy policies that broke successive governments.

The Conservatives codified Net Zero in 2019 but later denounced it as a fantasy. This political volatility stems from a core contradiction: the UK winds down domestic North Sea drilling while importing oil from Northern Europe. This strategy lets neighbors do the “dirty work,” effectively exporting billions in economic benefits, killing British jobs, and outsourcing carbon ledgers while voters endure skyrocketing bills.

Burnham aims to break this cycle of political and economic ruin through hard-nosed pragmatism. Nationally, he reframes Net Zero not as an ideological sacrifice, but as a vehicle for “clean reindustrialization.”

Instead of relying on volatile foreign imports or chasing uncompetitive domestic fossil fuels, Burnham pitches a 10-year mission to build homegrown wind, solar, and nuclear power. By treating the green transition as an aggressive domestic industrial strategy, he intends to secure true energy independence, slash consumer costs, and create jobs—finally stabilizing both the economy and Downing Street.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation. She is an Oxford-educated economist, a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Diana worked in senior roles in the White House under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. She has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation; Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury; Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor; Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; and Deputy Executive Secretary of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Diana is the author or coauthor of six books and hundreds of articles on economic policy, most recently United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2021). She received degrees in economics from Swarthmore College and Oxford University.

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