A rebuke to those who said clean power by 2030 was unachievable: they were wrong, we were right | Ed Miliband
Expert analysis backs our policy and its benefits for the country. Defeatist critics should take note
- Ed Milband is secretary of state for energy security and net zero
Labour fought and won the last election on the argument that every family and business in the country was paying the price of the previous government’s failure to deliver clean, homegrown energy for Britain.
Families and businesses know from the cost of living crisis that our dependence on fossil fuel markets controlled by dictators such as Vladimir Putin left the UK vulnerable and exposed to energy price spikes, as well as the escalating costs of climate breakdown. We also know that the drive to clean energy represents the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century. That is why the prime minister has put delivering clean power by 2030 at the heart of one of his five missions for government.
Ed Milband is secretary of state for energy security and net zero
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