The Lords Grand Committee on the Energy Bill met again yesterday and there were a couple of bits that were well worth watching, both revolving around Bryony Worthington, who seems to be in danger of losing the plot.
There's a bit of a catfight between her and Baroness Verma (16:48 onwards) which is lots of fun. Look out for Worthington's reaction at 16:53 when she realises that her amendment is going to be rejected.
It's impossible to see the noble baronesses' performances as anything other than a pair of incompetents steering the country towards disaster. I wonder if this is what Worthington is starting to realise. A couple of years ago, she implied that the reductions in carbon intensity produced by the switch to gas in the 1990s were somehow invalid because they were not a function of government policy. At the time she described how she had helped get government onto a path of decarbonisation through explicit policy measures.
Now, she seems to be realising that politics is hard to control and that explicit policy measures have unintended consequences. Perhaps she would have been better just letting the dash for gas take place.