UK PM contender Truss backs North Sea and fracking

The favourite to be the country’s next leader backs domestic supply solutions

Liz Truss, the smart-money candidate to win the UK Conservative party’s leadership race and, with it, the prime minister’s job, has come out strongly in favour of championing domestic solutions to tackle the energy supply and price crunch. But the country’s energy industry may be more concerned about her lack of understanding of their business than excited by her promise of support. “My second priority is increasing the supply of energy to the UK,” Truss told a final hustings at the end of August. Her first is to support customers through reversing a tax increase and a temporary moratorium on environmental levies placed on energy bills. “We should have made decisions years ago about nuclear