Search for “Tim Yeo” and “energy” on Google, and you’ll find 845,000 articles in less than a third of a second. That’s a good indicator of how the Conservative MP and chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, interviewed this week on p10, has seized the agenda on energy. His committee hearings have created numerous front page splashes and had the Twitterati in overdrive. Memorable moments include the public pillorying of the bosses of the big six last autumn as the committee sought to get its collective head around vertical integration; the dressing down the energy networks received following the Christmas storms; and the spat with Peter Lilley over climate change.
Select committees: not mere political theatre
