LONDON — One of Keir Starmer’s favorite meals is tandoori salmon curry, a dish the U.K. prime minister loves so much he once prepared it in front of the TV cameras.
But if he ever finds time to whip it up in the kitchen of his Downing Street flat, he may want to pause over who is supplying the fuel to heat his gas hob.
The gas coming through the pipes is provided by TotalEnergies Gas & Power, a subsidiary of the French fossil fuel giant, TotalEnergies.
And it isn’t just Downing Street it’s fueling. Much of Whitehall — the administrative center of the British state — is supplied with gas for heating, kitchens and hot water via a multiyear, multibillion-pound contract with the firm, known as ‘Supply of Energy 2,’ which could see up to £8 billion in British taxpayers’ money flowing to the energy multinational.
