Labour is banning fracking - for good

Labour has announced something Blackpool has been waiting years to hear – a permanent ban on fracking. No more drilling and disruption on the Fylde Coast. It’s over for good.

I stood shoulder to shoulder with protestors on the front line at Preston New Road while the Tories flip-flopped for years over Cuadrilla’s reckless fracking experiments. Our communities were shaken, literally, while ministers in Westminster looked the other way. There’s no doubt that the tireless campaigning of our anti-fracking movement made a difference but some politicians are still attempting to undermine the fact that we said no to fracking.

Reform think Lancashire’s earthquakes were a joke. Richard Tice compared them to dropping a melon. Nigel Farage wants fracking back even though the Reform-led Lancashire County Council has admitted its unviable.

When Blackpool Council debated a motion against fracking last week, Reform’s two councillors ducked the issue. One walked out. The other said she hadn’t looked into it. That’s not leadership. That’s chaos. It shows you exactly what would happen if Reform ever got near power.

Now Labour is drawing a line under fracking for good. Instead, we are choosing clean energy, energy security and jobs that last.

Labour is delivering certainty. And never again will Blackpool be used as a testing ground to line the pockets of the rich and powerful who don’t give a frack about us.