Energy security in an age of conflict Why the UK must lead a global clean power alliance 17 July 2026 Polly Billington is the MP for East Thanet. This essay is from the collection “Rethinking the UK’s role in a fractured world”, written by a cross-party group of MPs for the New Economics Foundation. The UK may have chosen to stay out of Donald Trump’s disastrous war with Iran, but we cannot escape its consequences. The Strait of Hormuz – a narrow maritime chokepoint through which a fifth of...