Will someone break it to Keir Starmer that the policy at the heart of Labour’s promise of a “fairer, greener future” will achieve neither of those goals? He has declared: “It will be Labour’s national mission over the next decade to fit out every home ... to make sure it is warm and well insulated and costs less to heat.”
The Conservative government has already spent billions paying for people’s loft and cavity wall insulation, but those subsidies have been means-tested; Labour’s plan is to extend the handout to all homeowners and tenants. Ed Miliband, the shadow “climate change and net zero secretary”, says that unless the government adopts Labour’s plan, “we will have to import more gas from Putin”.
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