Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to reassure industrial communities that his party’s green energy plans would not leave them behind, as he warned that the “moment for decisive action is now”.
The speech in Leith came as the party pledged to cut bills and create new jobs by removing planning barriers the party said stood in the way of green initiatives, as well as new targets to reduce the time taken to complete clean power projects from “years to months”.
Starmer said that 50,000 new jobs could be created in Scotland alone, amid a dispute with unions over his plans to ban new North Sea oil and gas exploration.
