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UK government to ban use of ‘slave labour’ solar panels by new state-owned energy company

Solar panels made with slave labour in China won’t be used by the UK's new state-owned energy company, the government announced today. 

GB Energy was launched by Labour in July, in a bid to boost renewables and lower energy bills, and will be formally established when the Great British Energy Bill is passed by Parliament. 

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