President Donald Trump has called on Labour to ditch "costly and unsightly" wind turbines and instead to focus on drilling in the North Sea.
The Republican has encouraged Sir Keir Starmer to encourage "modernised drilling" in the North Sea in order to bring down energy costs.
In a post on his Truth Social page, Trump said: "Our negotiated deal with the United Kingdom is working out well for all.
"I strongly recommend to them, however, that in order to get their Energy Costs down, they stop with the costly and unsightly windmills, and incentivise modernised drilling in the North Sea, where large amounts of oil lay waiting to be taken.
"A century of drilling left, with Aberdeen as the hub. The old fashioned tax system disincentives drilling, rather than the opposite. The UK's Energy Costs would go WAY DOWN, and fast!"
The President has a long history of calling for further natural resource extraction, with Trump using the phrase "Drill, Baby, Drill" during his 2024 campaign.
GB News has approached the Department for Energy Security and the Cabinet Office for a comment.
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Donald Trump calls for 50% tariff on EU goods amid trade row
US President Donald Trump
GettyDonald Trump has called for a 50 per cent tariff on all European Union imports.
The US President accused the EU of exploiting the United States and said trade talks had collapsed.
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Mary Glindon was the first Labour MP to sign the motion
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Mary Glindon, the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, has broken ranks with the party by signing an early day motion (EDM) drafted by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe.
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Phillipson said: "Children should learn about financial literacy – it's common sense. Our Plan for Change will make it happen. With our Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill, every child will benefit from an education that leaves them ready for work, ready for life."
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Netanyahu said: "I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice...you're on the wrong side of humanity, and you're on the wrong side of history."
An Israeli minister, Amichai Chikli, said Starmer and other leaders had been "emboldening the forces of terror".
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NHS junior doctors take part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham
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Health ministers are preparing for a fresh set of strikes as doctors denounced pay rises of up to 5.4 per cent this year as "derisory" and threatened to take action in protest.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said increases of four per cent for consultants, GPs, specialists and speciality doctors and four per cent plus £750 for resident doctors (formerly known as junior doctors) were "woefully inadequate."
Philip Banfield, the union’s chair of council, told The Guardian: "The health secretary can avert strike action by negotiating with us and agreeing a route to full pay restoration."
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Sir Ed Davey's party managed to hold on in Carshalton South & Clockhouse ward on Sutton Council, Hedge End South ward on Eastleigh Council and Horsham Riverside on West Sussex Council.
The party saw big gains in the local elections with 370 councillors across England, gaining control of Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire councils.
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