Labour MP Barry Gardiner has been grilled in an intense GB News clash over the Government’s net zero policy, as he was quizzed on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s pledge to cut energy bills.

Debating clean energy on GB News, political commentator Aman Bhogal took aim at Mr Miliband’s policy, asking Mr Gardiner: “Where is the £300 that was guaranteed to be saved off of everyone’s energy bills?”

At the Labour Party Conference earlier this month, the Energy Secretary lauded the Government’s move to use solar power as a “cheap and quick way” for Britons to generate their own energy, cutting bills “by hundreds of pounds a year”.

Mr Miliband further committed the Government to “pursuing clean power by 2030 and bringing the benefits to families as quickly as possible to help with the pressures of affordability that so many face”.

Hitting out at Labour policy, Mr Bhogal grilled Mr Gardiner: “A very simple question, Barry is, you’re a Labour MP, where is the £300 that was guaranteed off every single Briton’s energy bill? We haven’t got it.

“What we’re getting instead is this sort of rebranding by the Secretary of State for net stupid, and he’s out again with another fairytale.”

Interjecting Mr Bhogal, Mr Gardiner hit back: “Let’s keep the conversation polite, let’s be really polite.”

Doubling down on his argument, Mr Bhogal stated: “Net zero is stupid, and having a secretary of state, let alone having a junior minister for it is absolutely atrocious. It’s not good governance Barry.”

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Echoing Donald Trump’s calls for Britain to “drill baby, drill”, Mr Bhogal explained: “As President Trump said, we have a real treasure chest beneath the North Sea. Just last week, another billion barrels of oil had been discovered.

“Drill, baby, drill. Why can’t we get that oil and gas to heat the homes of Britons today, so that they don’t go cold today for this fairyland of tomorrow?”

He fumed: “Let’s be honest, let’s work this out, we’ve spent tens of billions on solar and and wind, yet it’s only generated 40,000 jobs. And we’re still subsidising the renewable industry in this country by the tens of billions.

“That is a debt which the next three generations are going to be paying off. What for? For some fairy tale imaginations of the Secretary of State?”

In disagreement, Mr Gardiner responded: “It’s not fairytale imagination.”

Immediately hitting back, Mr Bhogal asked the Labour MP: “Let me ask a very simple question, do people feel better off today than they did before Tony Blair came in? We’ve had three decades of the Blairite orthodoxy, do people feel better off? They don’t.”

Mr Gardiner told Mr Bhogal: “Aman, you know that’s nonsense. We can come to some sort of agreement because I think it should be taken off the bill payers, because it’s unfair.

“At the moment, those who are more using electricity than gas, the preponderance of those costs is on electricity, not on gas. And so it’s really important that we get this right to help people.”