Labour’s climate zealotry is pushing Britain to jeopardise its foreign policy and global standing with a plan to burn biomass imported from North Korea’s dictatorship and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Putting their climate crusade above all else…

Naturally, Nigel Farage blasted the idea as “completely nuts”. In a push for biomass to play a “significant role” in decarbonising all sectors of the economy, a resource model published late this summer sets out a list of overseas sources of bioenergy, which includes a list of “improbable” – though not impossible – countries like North Korea, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the Maldives. The Director of the Partnership for Policy Integrity Mary Booth slammed the “bonkers” scheme, pointing out the absurdity of potentially relying on these nations as major suppliers of agricultural and forestry biomass. Bending the knee to dictators in the name of Net Zero zealotry while Brits pick up the tab…