LONDON — Reform UK will not be able to block government-approved large-scale solar farms hated by local campaigners, the party has admitted.
Richard Tice, energy spokesperson for Nigel Farage’s populist poll-leaders, has tried to channel frustration among some voters at Labour’s plans to back vast solar developments, as ministers rush to hit climate goals by the end of the decade.
Super-sized solar farms are “so unfair” on local residents, Tice told Parliament last May. “Those living in a village or small town in the countryside might all of a sudden find themselves surrounded not by glorious fields, but by black plastic. There is no justification for that, or fairness in it.”
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He regularly rails against “net-zero madness.”
