DELEGATES to Scottish Labour’s business conference in Glasgow were assured today that the next Labour government will make Scotland the “clean energy capital” of Britain.

The claim was made by shadow net zero secretary Ed Miliband as he discussed the party’s green prosperity plan alongside his Holyrood counterpart, Sarah Boyack.

Labour had already announced it would headquarter its proposed publicly owned energy company, GB Energy, in Scotland. But it has now bolstered that plan with a funding pledge of £8.3 billion over the lifetime of the next parliament to invest in initiatives such as floating offshore wind, hydrogen, as well as controversial carbon capture and storage facilities.