TORY leader Kemi Badenoch was accused today of a Trumpian obsession in a pro-oil and gas speech.

Ms Badenoch said the economy was “in limbo” while businesses waited to see what Andy Burnham would do if he became the next prime minister.

“Britain is facing a summer of chaos,” she said in a speech in London.

“It is time to get Britain drilling again and if Andy Burnham had any sense, he would sack [Energy Secretary] Ed Miliband, not make him chancellor.”

The MP for North West Essex has previously called for more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

Uplift deputy director Robert Palmer said: “Kemi Badenoch’s Trumpian obsession with oil and gas is blinding the Conservative Party to the reality of how climate change is affecting Britain right now.”

He said last week’s heatwave had seen schools shut, trains stopped and people’s health suffering, with likely fatalities, arguing that continued fossil fuel burning is driving more frequent and intense heatwaves in Britain.

“The science is clear, there can be no new oil fields if we want to stay within safe climate targets,” Mr Palmer said.

“Yet Kemi Badenoch’s response is to want to abandon those targets and drill even more.

“Pushing ahead with this reckless approach will leave ordinary people paying the price, through more extreme heat, more damaging floods, and the rising costs that come with climate breakdown.

“Either Kemi Badenoch believes, like Trump, that climate change is a ‘con job’ or she is simply willing to ignore the consequences for us and our children.”

He warned more drilling would not cut energy bills but would increase oil company profits and worsen the climate crisis, calling it “profoundly irresponsible.”