Labour unveils inexperienced vitality plans which is able to ‘lower Brits’ payments’ – updates
Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce his new green energy plan, as he pledges to cut bills and invest in domestic sources of power.
The Labour leader is set to tell an audience in Scotland government failings have left the public at the mercy of dictators like Vladimir Putin . He will vow to “turn the page” on the crisis. The logo of Great British Energy, which he will set up if he becomes PM, has already been unveiled.
Sir Keir Starmer is pledging GB Energy’s early investments will include wind and solar projects across the UK. The energy firm, which would be based in Scotland, would make the country “a world leader in new technologies such as floating offshore wind, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage”.
Sir Keir said: “[The Tories] have left us at the mercy of fossil fuel markets controlled by dictators like Putin. [Labour would deliver] cheap, clean, homegrown energy we control”.
The Conservative Party said the GB Energy plans were an unfunded promise that would cost taxpayers, and attacked Labour moves to stop new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, claiming this would hit jobs.
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Keir Starmer unveils logo of publicly owned energy company that will lower bills
Keir Starmer will accuse the Tories of fuelling the cost of living crisis by failing to draw up a proper energy plan.
The Labour leader will tell an audience in Scotland that government failings left the public at the mercy of dictators like Vladimir Putin. He will vow to “turn the page” on the crisis as he unveils the logo of Great British Energy, which he will set up if he becomes PM.
Mr Starmer says the publicly owned company will help drive down bills, warning of a £900 annual hike if the Tories stay in power. He will say: “The pain and misery of the cost of living crisis was directly caused by the Tories’ failure to make Britain resilient, leaving us at the mercy of fossil fuel markets controlled by dictators like Putin.
Keir Starmer unveils logo of publicly owned energy company that will lower bills
