Makerfield by-election
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If you are a constituent, please ask your candidates:
- Where you stand on the issue of climate change.
- Do you fully support the UK’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, to the target for 2030 announced at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, and to the target for 2035 announced at COP29 in Baku in 2024? Will you work to ensure that the UK does not shy away from these commitments?
Please let us know how they respond at Climate.Election@lse.ac.uk.
Let candidates know that you intend to share their response with the ‘Climate Election’ project. Please find a template letter and further information here.
| Candidate and party | Candidate position on climate change and net zero by 2050. |
| Jake Austin Liberal Democrats Via: info@wlmlibdems.org.uk X Liberal Democrat national policy | |
| Count Binface Count Binface Party countbinface@gmail.com X | |
| Andy Burnham The Labour Party northwest@labour.org.uk X Labour Party National policy | |
| Dan Clarke The Libertarian Party Via: enquiries@libertarianpartyuk.com X Facebook The Libertarian Party national policy | “On Net Zero, the Libertarian Party UK does not support the current government approach. While we acknowledge anthropogenic climate change, we also recognise that the UK has limited influence on the global climate. The present Net Zero framework relies heavily on centralised planning, regulation, and state distortion of the energy market. This has imposed real costs on households and businesses, often without clear environmental returns. Our position is that the best route to cleaner, cheaper and more resilient energy is not top-down mandates, but a freer, more competitive energy system. That means removing planning barriers, cutting red tape, and allowing technologies to compete on their merits, while ending state distortions that keep energy prices artificially high and tied to global gas and oil markets. In practical terms, we support rapid expansion of nuclear energy, particularly Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), as a reliable low-carbon baseload option. We also strongly support unlocking geothermal energy, including mine water heat projects and district heating.” [Last updated 28.05.26. Response directly supplied by Dan Clarke.] |
| John Dyer Independent | |
| Ed Gemmell Climate Party Via: info@theclimate.party X Facebook Climate Party national policy | Position on Climate Change: “We are facing an existential threat, the science is getting rapidly worse, the effects are being felt faster and more widely and we need to move wildly faster in order to avoid the worst case scenarios. The only reason the Climate Party exists is to put the climate and nature crisis at the top of the agenda and push for faster action. That said we view the solution from a British context as Britain innovating and investing its way to net zero 20 years faster than planned and 20 years faster than our competitors in the World. Then, we, Britain, dominate and lead the new Clean Industrial Revolution creating every innovation in every area that is required by the rest of the World to get to net zero, we then open up shop and sell our innovations to the rest of the world for two decades boosting UK GDP by double digit percentages while enabling global climate action to move faster.” Support for UK net zero 2050 commitments: “No! They are wildly too late as the climate science has moved on since all these commitments were made. Net zero 2050 is a load of rubbish unless the earlier commitments are massively increased. Also the current projections of the climate change committee and others of the costs (both public and private) of reaching net zero in the course of the next 25 years are just that, ‘costs’, we need to accelerate those costs and invest all that money both public and private now in the next 4-5 years and get Britain to net zero in 2030 or 2031. Then we will truly lead the World and massively boost our exports. This level of investment would create an immediate boost to GDP simply because of the cash injection into the economy and then after 4-5 years we would see a massive increase in GDP coming for a huge increase in exports. We would be re-industrialising Britain in a clean and sustainable way and everyone in UK would benefit financially.” |
| Paul Gould Independent | |
| Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope The Official Monster Raving Loony Party a.hope70@yahoo.com X | |
| Robert Kenyon Reform UK Via: chair.makerfield@reformuk.com Instagram Reform UK National Policy | |
| Robert Pownall Independent Via: contact@protectthewild.org.uk | |
| Rebecca Shepherd Restore Britain Via: makerfield@restorebritain.org.uk Restore Britain National policy | |
| Sarah Wakefield Green Party contact@wiganandleigh.greenparty.org.uk Instagram Green Party national policy | |
| Peter Ward Rejoin EU Via: admin@therejoineuparty.com Rejoin EU national policy | |
| Michael Winstanley The Conservative Party Via: office@wlmconservatives.com X Facebook The Conservative Party national policy |