23-05-2025
Trump tells Starmer to dump windmills and increase North Sea drilling
Donald Trump has urged Keir Starmer to stop backing renewable energy from windmills and focus on North Sea drilling.
The president said the recently negotiated trade deal was 'working out well for all', but said the UK should 'get their energy costs down'.
In a post on TruthSocial he 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 incentivize modernized 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 disincentivizes drilling, rather than the opposite.
