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Sir Keir has U-turned on state-owned power generation, Scottish Greens says
(left to right) Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething, Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens and Shadow Energy Secretary Ed Miliband on board the jack-up barge Excalibur during a visit to GB Energy at the Port of Holyhead, in North Wales, March 25, 2024
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has performed a U-turn on state-owned power generation, the Scottish Greens said today.
Flying into Scotland by private jet today, Sir Keir toured the west of the country to promote his party’s plans for a just transition, including the creation of a Scottish headquartered and publicly owned “GB Energy” company.
His Scottish Labour counterparts had boasted this week that the plans could generate as many as 63,000 jobs, enabling many of the estimate 100,000 people whose jobs rely on North Sea oil and gas to transfer their skills towards producing clean energy — and make Scotland a “clean energy superpower.”
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