Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used a visit to Grimsby to meet with senior clean energy industry figures, with an urgent need for a return for onshore wind and further offshore strategy agreed upon.
Steps that could help cut bills as quick as possible were under the microscope as he made a rapid return to the town - the very eastern edge of the northern ‘red wall’ shattered in 2019.
He joined ousted Labour MP Melanie Onn - now deputy chief executive of Renewable UK - and CEO Dan McGrail, taking in both Bishopthorpe onshore wind farm at Tetney, a parish just outside the town, and Orsted’s world-leading offshore hub on the docks. It was the take-up of an invite extended over from his previous visit, curtailed by the Sue Gray report publication and the controversy at the end of Boris Johnson's time in the job he's keen to take on.
