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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Toby Helm Political Editor

Labour planning £8bn Biden-style green energy revolution

Offshore wind turbines with a Union Jack in the foreground
Labour is aiming to create 450,000 new jobs over a decade in green industrial projects such as offshore wind generation. Photograph: John Keeble/Getty Images

The Labour party is planning to put the UK at the head of a worldwide green industrial revolution, with a massive US-style, public-private investment scheme targeted at the most deprived regions.

In an interview with the Observer, Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, who will travel to Washington in May to meet senior Democrats, says a Labour government will follow the model of US president Joe Biden’s hugely ambitious regional recovery plan, using the climate crisis as the catalyst for economic revival.

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