Chris Huhne can always be guaranteed to grate. Several Conservatives have cracked wry
smiles at the energy secretary’s comments about the “Tory Tea Party tendency”. Mark Pritchard quipped that plenty of senior Lib Dems would soon be at leisure to throw their own
tea parties and John Redwood dismissed
Huhne’s cant as conference high-jinks.
Redwood went on to challenge Huhne’s policies. Speaking to Sky News, he said he was “happy to hear ideas” about “promoting more competition”, pointing out that competition might reduce prices. Then he added that Huhne “has also got to understand it is his policies that are driving costs of electricity up in Britain because we are choosing to generate it in a very expensive way.” As Matthew Sinclair pointed out earlier, Huhne displays no such understanding.
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