Unless you’re jet-setting Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. His reckless net zero crusade is stamped Made in China. And the nationalisation of British Steel shows just how dangerous outsourcing key industries to hostile powers really is.

Once a pillar of our industrial strength, British Steel is now a cautionary tale of decline. Successive governments let it slide, including Boris Johnson, who allowd Chinese firm Jingye to buy Scunthorpe’s steelworks in 2020.

Now, Jingye has cancelled vital orders to keep the UK’s last blast furnaces running. They're the only ones capable of producing virgin steel.

Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says Miliband’s green madness has left us with energy costs twice as high as Germany’s.

Steel isn’t just another industry. It’s the backbone of tanks, turbines, trains – and ironically even wind farms. Yet as China floods global markets with cheap subsidised coal-fuelled steel, he let domestic supply go to the wall.

In Westminster, there are whispers that Jingye’s real goal wasn’t to revive Scunthorpe but to run it down. Workers recently blocked access to the site, fearing sabotage from within.

Meanwhile, Miliband vetoed a new Cumbrian mine that could have supplied homegrown coking coal. Instead, we now import it at twice the cost, under Royal Navy escort. Brilliant.

Last September, Labour nodded through Tata Steel’s plan to shut Port Talbot’s blast furnaces – losing 2,800 jobs. Miliband looked the other way.

The Tories are in no way blameless, and not just Boris. Theresa May hiked the target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 100%.

But Miliband’s in charge now and his hostility to North Sea oil and gas takes economic self-harm to new heights.

Blocking new licences means we now import more from unfriendly regimes, while losing billions in tax revenue.

This isn’t energy security. It’s surrender.

Ed says solar panels and wind farms will set a global example. They already are – to Xi Jinping, as China cashes in on our green obsession.

Chinese firms are embedded in a third of UK offshore wind projects. This isn’t a green revolution, it’s a Chinese Communist Party export strategy.

The US gets it. They’re banning Chinese tech from critical infrastructure and blacklisting firms linked to the Chinese military. We did it with Huawei, blocking its tech from our 5G networks and other critical infrastructure.

But Miliband? He’s rolling out the red carpet. Chinese firm Mingyang is building turbines for Europe’s largest wind farm.

Here. In our North Sea. Defence objections were overruled.

These state-linked companies can spy on our Navy, switch off power, or worse. And Chinese hackers have already targeted UK energy firms.

This isn’t theory – it’s happening.

Some of their tech is made with slave labour. How does that sit with Red Ed?

And for what? Net zero doesn’t even work on its own terms.

We block coal mines here, then import dirtier fuel from abroad. We scrap gas licences, then pay despots for LNG. We shut steelworks, then import carbon-heavy Chinese steel.

That’s not saving the planet. That’s exporting pollution, jobs, and security.

Miliband has already been embarrassed over Heathrow’s third runway, the electric car chaos, and now British Steel.

He’s not just a political liability, he’s an economic and national security threat.

Keir Starmer must reshuffle him out. Fast. Before even more damage is done.