RISHI Sunak’s decision to reimpose the fracking ban is an own-goal.
Why block a potentially vast source of UK-produced gas in an economic crisis brought about by a dire shortage of it?
The shale ban was the one howler in the Tories’ 2019 election-winning pitch.
While our new PM rightly wants to return to that manifesto’s basic principles, circumstances change.
We have since been hit by Covid and Putin’s war.