Overview

• Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would make “maximising extraction” from the North Sea its core objective if it wins power.
• The plan includes overhauling the North Sea Transition Authority, dropping the word “transition” and replacing its 12‑page mandate with an instruction to extract the maximum amount of fossil fuels.
• Badenoch argues Britain should tap domestic hydrocarbons to boost growth, citing Norway’s approach and declaring she would “get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea.”
• Details were reported by the Sunday Telegraph, with Badenoch expected to set out the proposals in a speech in Aberdeen in the coming days.
• Labour’s energy secretary Ed Miliband has criticised the stance as abandoning the net‑zero consensus, calling the approach “anti‑science.”