This headline is true, but not for the reason the author thinks.
The real reason is that both crises are caused by low-density zoning and minimum parking requirements that create car dependency and drive up construction and infrastructure costs per housing unit.
Single family zoning is a north American problem as are those stupid parking requirements - Ed Miliband is British and is talking about a country that’s absolutely packed with mixed use neighborhoods and medium density residential buildings.
It does seem rather absurd that we are paying so much for electric here when we have the four largest offshore wind farms in the world (and seven out of the the top ten)
Bring up any of these places in the OSM cycle map view to see how connected they are. Milton Keynes is famous for having a very extensive network of cycle routes, but you might not notice when driving as they are a completely different transport network than the main roads.
Not sure if you were using MK as a good or bad example of British suburbia?
One ‘test’ we could do would be: find the most American-like suburb and ask it for a route to the nearest shops or café, pub, supermarket, hairdresser, etc - if it gives you a choice of a few easy cycling routes or regular buses then it’s probably not as car dependent as conservatives want to think it is.