Sam Hall: Reform's socialist new energy policies give Miliband a run for his money

Sam Hall: Reform's socialist new energy policies give Miliband a run for his money

Sam Hall is Director of the Conservative Environmental Network and a former policy advisor to Michael Gove at Defra. On occasion, Reform has managed to pull off a reasonable impression of a libertarian, free-market party. But their new socialist energy policies give Ed Miliband a run for his money. Their plan to hike taxes on energy firms, punish farmers with death taxes, ban technologies they don’t like, and tie up infrastructure in red tape wo…