Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has launched a blistering attack against Environment Secretary Ed Miliband.
The Boston & Skegness MP did not pull his punches after being involved in a Commons bust up with the Environment Secretary after the 2024 General Election.
Speaking to delegates at Reform UK’s annual conference, Tice said: “He is the chief zealot. He really is. He’s absolutely obsessed. In the chamber, he’s like a man possessed.”
He revealed: “I actually had to leave the chamber. My blood was boiling. It’s unbelievable. He wants to cover all our farmland, my constituency of fertile land, he wants to cover it with solar panels.
“He doesn’t care about blighting the countryside with hundreds and thousands of huge, 50-metre pylons, including across my constituency.
“This man is a danger to our economy. He’s the most dangerous man in Britain.”
The Boston & Skegness MP added: “The first thing we’ll do when we win the general election folks is scrap net zero.”
Miliband has vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels by building more green energy infrastructure.
Labour also reversed the decade-long ban on onshore windfarms, approved four of the UK’s largest solar farms and set up green power company GB Energy, with £8billion of funding.
Tice’s attack on net zero came shortly after Ashfield MP Lee Anderson described the policy as “a load of rubbish”.
However, Tice was not only keen to tear into Miliband.
He also dedicated part of his speech to go after Sir Keir Starmer with a jibe about gifts.
Tice said: “Now I must declare an interest here. It’s important to declare this interest. I have paid for my own suit”
Connecting the freebies with the decision to cut Winter Fuel Payments, he added: “Sponger Starmer. Do I call him Scrounger Starmer? Do I call him Free Gear Keir, or do I call him Starmer, the Granny Harmer? Unbelievable.”
The Prime Minister received more than £100,000 in tickets and gifts, putting him top of the current crop of MPs.
However, the decision came after Starmer instructed Labour MPs to axe Winter Fuel Payments for around 10 million pensioners.
