Should the government approve oil and gas field licences in North Sea? | BBC Politics Live

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Cabinet Office Minister Chris Ward clashed over whether the government should approve licences for new oil and gas fields in the North Sea on BBC Two’s Politics Live.

"Even if you were to do that and extract more oil and gas, that would still be sold on the international market, you would still be on the fossil fuel rollercoaster," Ward said.

"The question is do we import that oil and gas from other countries, like Norway, or do we drill it ourselves in the North Sea?” Philp responded.

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