STARMER TO OUTLINE PLANS FOR HOMEGROWN BRITISH ENERGY

LABOUR Leader Keir Starmer is to outline plans for a publicly-owned British energy company during a visit to North Wales.

Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens told GB News: “Labour is committed to taking back control of our national energy security and we’re going to do that through Great British Energy, a publicly-owned clean energy company.

“We’ll set out our plans today for secure homegrown British energy. That will mean that we’ll invest in clean energy generation that will cut bills for businesses and households across the country, create good well-paid jobs for people across the country as well, and at the same time take back control of our energy security so that we’re not relying on tyrants like Vladimir Putin.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she continued: “We have the funding in place, we’ve explained how we’re going to fund Great British Energy through the windfall tax and for every pound of government money that goes into it.

“…this is a really exciting, bold and ambitious plan, will double onshore wind, we will treble solar power and we will quadruple offshore wind and here in Wales particularly, we want to play our part in powering the UK for generations to come. It’s a really exciting plan and we’re ready to deliver it.”

She added: “One of the real failures of the Government for the last 14 years is that they have wasted 14 years where we could have been investing in things like floating offshore wind, instead of which we have no industrial strategy.

“We’ve had no plan from the Government, no decisions or short-sighted decisions have been made and in that time, foreign governments have been profiting from our energy systems in Britain.”