Donald Trump has sparked a fiery row on GB News after making a fresh demand to the Labour Government over their energy policy.
Taking to Truth Social, the US President called on Sir Keir Starmer to ditch "costly and unsightly" wind turbines and instead to focus on drilling in the North Sea.
Hailing the UK-US trade deal, 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!"
Emma Trimble and Bill Rammell have clashed over Donald Trump's latest demand to the UK
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Reacting to the demand on GB News, commentator Emma Trimble backed the US President, declaring his remarks "absolutely right" and "common sense".
Trimble said: "He's right, it's very sensible advice from the President. I think he's absolutely right, they are unsightly and it is just common sense.
"That is the way to get our energy costs down. I don't see how it's easy for anyone to argue against that."
Hitting back at Trimble, former Labour Minister Bill Rammell claimed that renewable methods are "cheaper" and "more secure" than oil and gas.
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Rammell argued: "Renewables are cheaper, they can pull our energy prices down, oil and gas is more expensive.
"I'm sick and tired of Donald Trump intervening on other countries, sovereign decisions, like he can lecture us."
Interjecting Rammell, host Nana Akua questioned Britain's dependency on other nations in securing renewable sources.
She asked: "Where do you think that the solar panels and the windmills, the equipment to make these things, where do you think they're coming from? Most of the parts are coming from China.
"So now we are simply moving our dependency from Russia to China."
Disagreeing with Nana, Rammell responded: "We need a trading relationship with China. We trade with all sorts of people, but when you have an aggressive power like Russia that invades a sovereign country, that pushes prices through the roof, if we invest more and secure more renewables, the evidence shows the price is lower."
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Weighing back in on the debate, Trimble argued that the "common sense" solution to the energy row is having "diversified" sources of energy.
Trimble told GB News: "Surely the common sense solution would be to have as many diversified sources of energy as possible, and so drilling for oil in the North Sea would be an answer to energy dependency, whether it's on China for parts for renewables or whether it's on Russia for gas.
"It's sensible to have the most sources of energy possible in such a tumultuous global political situation, and I think it's rich to talk about Donald Trump intervening - it's not that long since Labour sent activists over to the United States to campaign for Joe Biden.
"So we can't really criticise Donald Trump's well-intended, well-intended advice, which I think is absolutely fair enough when we have British politicians doing absolutely, exactly the same thing when it comes to the United States."
