A publicly owned energy company, insulation for every British home, carbon-free power by the end of the decade – the Labour conference showed Keir Starmer putting a low-carbon future firmly at the centre of his economic plans.
Crucially, however, these announcements were not just green in intent – they are mainly aimed at tackling the soaring cost of living, and at “levelling up” the UK’s regions. With the world in the grip of a gas crisis while renewable energy has tumbled in price, the real costs of fossil fuel addiction are increasingly clear, and a low-carbon energy system looks the economic choice.
