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Paul Cargill & Peter A Walker

Publicly-owned clean energy firm to be based in Scotland: Starmer

Thousands of jobs could be created in Scotland under a Labour proposal to create a publicly-owned clean energy company and establish its headquarters north of the border, Sir Keir Starmer will say.

The Labour leader set out his proposal to launch Great British Energy (GBN) during his party conference speech in Liverpool last year as part of a strategy to turn the UK into a clean energy superpower.

He told attendees the company would be launched in the first year of a Labour government should the party win the next general election and has now revealed its headquarters would be based in Scotland.

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