WELLINGTON MP Gideon Amos has made an impassioned plea to government to ban fracking.

During a debate into the government’s Carbon Budget, he launched a broadside at Reform and the Conservatives for their support of the controversial technique for recovering gas and oil.

He told the Commons: “Fracking in Lancashire, let us remember, triggered 200 seismic events of magnitudes up to 2.9, which were felt across the whole Fylde coast.

“My neighbours in Taunton and Wellington want nothing to do with fracking, and certainly not just outside our town.

“The Carbon Budget provides the continuity of trajectory that lower bills and a stable climate depend upon, but we must go further.

“We must reject the dangerous alternatives from the Conservatives and Reform and say no to fracking our wonderful countryside.”