THE Unite policy conference backed nationalisation of the energy sector yesterday, condemning a model that puts corporate profit ahead of human need and the climate.

Moving Composite 5 on nationalisation, delegate James Findlay from Scotland said that, in Britain’s current energy sector, “profit is the priority — workers, customers and communities are either a hurdle or a means to maximise dividends to shareholders.”

Energy is “fundamental to the infrastructure of the country,” he pointed out, calling on the union to demand of whatever government is in power that it “nationalise the energy and utilities industries in order to stop the profiteering and invest in the energy infrastructure.”