The deputy prime minister is expected to blame Beijing for the hack and announce new sanctions against Chinese officials
Jo Stevens is joining Keir Starmer on Anglesey today on a visit to promote Labour’s clean energy mission. Vaughan Gething, the new first minister of Wales, and Ed Miliband, the shadow secretary for climate change and net zero are also there, and they are announcing that Great British Energy, the new, state-owned energy company that Labour plans to set up, will make a significant investment in floating offshore wind. Labour says this announcement “marks the first major investment commitment that Great British Energy will make once established by an incoming UK Labour government”.
In a news release issued overnight, Labour says:
Wales has the potential to be a world leader in the development of new floating offshore wind technology, which a recent government-backed taskforce says could unlock up to £43bn of GVA [gross value added – a measure of economic growth] to the UK economy and create around 30,000 jobs by 2050.
However, in recent years, floating offshore wind in Wales has been let down by a lack of support from the UK government. Not a single floating offshore wind project was successful at the government’s last failed renewables auction. The Port of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, saw its bid to act as a hub for developing offshore wind technology short-sightedly rejected by the government …
In an increasingly insecure world, with tyrants using energy as an economic weapon, Britain must take back control of our national energy security. After fourteen years of a Tory government kowtowing to fossil fuel dictators, Labour’s plan for energy independence would get Putin’s boot off our throat and power up communities across Britain.
We need a new strategy, which we have long been calling for, to tackle state threats with closer working between the Home Office and the Foreign Office to coordinate the UK’s strategic response to this growing threat both to domestic security and our electoral freedoms.
