Labor Leader’s Oil Plans Spark Outrage In Scotland

In January this year, at the Davos summit, the leader of Britain's Labour party, Keir Starmer, said that if Labour won the next elections, they would put an end to investments in oil and gas in the North Sea. This month, Starmer reiterated the promise—or threat, as Scotland saw it. The official announcement that a future Labour government will not approve any new oil and gas licenses for the North Sea is due to be made next month. "What we've said about oil and gas is that there does need to be a transition," Starmer said back…