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Rachel Reeves should scrap the North Sea windfall tax now

瑞切尔·里夫斯应该立即取消北海意外税

The question of what volumes the UK should extract from the North Sea during an age of energy transition is now at the centre of the energy debate.

The question of what volumes the UK should extract from the North Sea during an age of energy transition is now at the centre of the energy debate.

2026-03-04  867  中等
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As it happens, one suspects Rachel Reeves’ silence on the EPL in her statement – despite heavy Westminster rumours that something was in the offing – was probably also motivated by war in Iran and spikes in the prices of oil and gas. It is harder, politically speaking, to reform a windfall tax if there is a chance that windfall conditions are returning.

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