Extract from BEIS questions: Onshore Wind Farms - Oct 25

Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): My constituents do not like arrogance, and they do not like posh arrogance even more. Is it not the case that the guilty group here, most of whom were passionate Brexiteers, have done so much damage to our economy? That means that tidal power, energy from waste and a range of other alternatives have been languishing, because this Government have no sense of direction and will not recognise what the Bank of England Governor and previous Governors have said, which is that we have been impoverished by leaving the European Union.

Mr Speaker: I am not quite sure that that has got a lot to do with tidal energy.

The Minister for Climate (Graham Stuart): Well, there was there an attempted linkage to the question, but I do not think that made it any less pompous or, indeed, irrelevant.