U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called to "open up" the North Sea and get rid of windmills in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday. Oil companies have been steadily exiting the North Sea in recent decades with production declining from a peak of 4.

There are many contrasts between Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour and Donald Trump’s Republicans. But the differences between the two on energy policy are perhaps the starkest.

US President-elect Donald Trump called on Friday for the United Kingdom to dismantle its wind turbines in the North Sea in response to a decision by a US oil company to leave the oil-rich region. "The UK is making a very big mistake.

US President-elect Donald Trump hit out at the UK’s windfall tax on oil and gas producers in a social media post Friday, adding to criticisms from his incoming administration of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s agenda.

Trump made the declaration alongside a report from early November announcing that oil and gas producer Apache planned to end all operations in the North Sea by December 2029.

The British North Sea is one of the world's oldest offshore oil and gas basins where production has been in steady decline since the early 2000s. At the same time, the region has become one of the world's largest and fastest growing offshore wind basins.

US President-elect Donald Trump says the UK should keep the North Sea open to fossil fuel extraction after the Government increased its windfall tax on oil and gas producers.

The US president-elect also said the Government should get rid of ‘windmills’ in a social media post about British energy policy.

US President-elect Donald Trump continues making bold foreign policy statements, even though his inauguration is two weeks away. This time, he criticized the United Kingdom's energy policy, demanding to "open" the North Sea and get rid of the windmills.