The meeting comes just days after the government announced a planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
"Energy industry leaders can see that this government will back homegrown, secure energy - whether that's renewables, our revival in nuclear or our support for our vital oil and gas industry in the North Sea."
The meeting with Mr Shapps comes just weeks after the Uxbridge by-election sparked a debate within both parties over how to sell green policies to the public, after Labour's narrow defeat was blamed on Sadiq Khan's ultra low emission zone's planned expansion to outer London. Another pressure bearing on Mr Sunak is over whether the government should keep its oil and windfall tax afterThe £2bn figure was in fact half the $5bn profit the firm achieved in the preceding three months in the first quarter of 2023.
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