The party's shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the country had to move towards more renewable sources of energy amid reports Sir Keir Starmer will make an announcement on oil and gas exploration next month.
In January, the Scottish government said in its draft energy strategy that there"should be a presumption against new exploration for oil and gas".has backed new oil and gas exploration and the government in Westminster is in charge of energy licences.A Labour source said:"We are against the granting of new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. They will do nothing to cut bills as the Tories have acknowledged.
"This isn't about shutting down what's going on at the moment, we will manage those sustainably," he said. "If you stop all new exploration, you are going to have to fill the gap from somewhere and it won't all come from wind. We know that but the sums have been done." Labour hopes investment in renewable energies will create more jobs - up to half a million, according to the Sunday Times."We do need to invest in wind. We need to invest in tidal, we need to invest in nuclear," Mr Ashworth added.
"We need more sustainable sources of energy supply in order to bring bills down for consumers and actually create jobs in this green transition.Read more from Sky News:
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