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Dan Tomlinson, a Treasury minister, defended the government’s decision to relax some sanctions on Russian oil in interviews this morning. He also insisted the move would be time-limited.
On the Today programme, asked why the government was putting keeping down the cost of flights abroad above the need to support Ukraine, he replied:
I reject the binary that you’ve offered me, there.
I think it is entirely possible, and plausible, and as in fact what the government is doing, to have one of the strongest sanction regimes in the world, to be leading the international effort to support Ukraine, and to make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn’t get what he wants from his things.
Labour’s ridiculous energy policies have weakened Britain and must be reversed.
The British Government should not be in a position where it relaxes sanctions on Russian energy or helps to strengthen Putin’s energy revenues.
Labour’s energy policies and their ideological approach has weakened our country’s energy security.
Russian oil is not the solution to cost of living pressures or the headwinds facing businesses.
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