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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Starmer: Labour plan for state-backed offshore windfarms a ‘gamechanger’

Keir Starmer visits the Port of Holyhead with shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens, new Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething and shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband
Keir Starmer visits the Port of Holyhead with shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens, new Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething and shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Labour’s plan for state-backed offshore windfarms will be a “gamechanger”, Keir Starmer has said, as the party seeks to regain the initiative on green policy after the slow-motion ditching of its £28bn investment pledge.

Speaking to broadcasters after a visit to Holyhead port in north Wales alongside Vaughan Gething, the country’s new first minister, Starmer insisted that a transition to sustainable power was still “one of my central missions”.

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