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What is GB Energy anyway?
This new plan may be one of Starmer’s avowed priorities in government, but he and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar have given conflicting accounts of how it will actually work. COLL McCAIL reports

LABOUR’S 136-page general election manifesto contains almost as many pictures of Keir Starmer as it does concrete policy commitments.
There are 191 mentions of the word “change,” plenty of platitudes and very few details. The document contains lots of colour but, appropriately, the section outlining “Labour’s fiscal plan” and shackling Keir Starmer to the prevailing economic orthodoxy is entirely grey.
The message is clear: Labour will be sensible managers and responsible custodians of the status quo. Adorning this otherwise bland electoral offer are an array of intentionally vague promises to which Labour MPs can point when asked the inevitable question, “what will actually change?”
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