Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has set out detailed plans in which he has promised to “throw everything” at net zero if his party wins the next election.
In a speech in Leith, Scotland, on Monday, Starmer, said his Green Prosperity Plan “will power us forward towards net zero, generate growth right across the country, end the suffocating cost-of-living crisis, and get Putin’s boot off our throat with real energy security.”
“A stronger, more secure Britain, once again at the service of working people, with cheaper bills and clean electricity by 2030,” he said.
Teesside Wind Farm, England, photographed on Oct. 6, 2020. (Owen Humphreys/PA Media)
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Some of the plans include creating GB Energy, “a new, publicly-owned clean generation company” which will be based in Scotland….