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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (left), shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband (2nd left) and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (2nd right) during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast, March 24, 2023
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer outlined his party’s ambitions to make Britain a clean-energy superpower in Edinburgh today.
Renewing his pledge for no new North Sea oil and gas, Sir Keir outlined an investment plan he says would create half a million jobs, grow the economy and get Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “boot off our throat with real energy security.”
He set out plans for a new state energy company headquartered in Scotland: GB Energy, which would invest its surpluses in a national wealth fund. A warm homes plan and a £500m-a-year British jobs bonus scheme offering capital grants to low-carbon industries were also outlined.
Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land
