Donald Trump has urged the UK to get rid of “unsightly windmills” and incentivise drilling for oil in the North Sea.The US president said the deal hammered out with Sir Keir Starmer’s Government is “working out well”.

Donald Trump has called on Labour to ditch "costly and unsightly" wind turbines and open up the North Sea to oil drilling in a furious attack on net zero. The Commander-in-Chief has encouraged Sir Keir Starmer to encourage "modernised drilling" in the North Sea in order to bring down Britain's spiralling energy costs.

The US president hit out at the Labour leader’s net zero strategy, telling him to “stop with the costly and unsightly windmills” and instead forge ahead with more drilling for oil in the North Sea.