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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Larry Elliott, Kiran Stacey and John Collingridge

UK needs ambitious green plan to keep up with allies, says Labour frontbencher

Keir Starmer and Jonathan Reynolds
Keir Starmer and Jonathan Reynolds. The shadow business secretary has said Britain needs to respond to Joe Biden’s act. Photograph: Ian West/PA

Britain needs its own ambitious green investment plan to keep up with its allies, a Labour frontbencher has said, amid an increasingly bitter row over whether Keir Starmer should stick to his £28bn pledge.

Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, said the UK should come up with a version of Joe Biden’s $369bn (£290bn) Inflation Reduction Act, which has provided support to a range of technologies including electric cars and renewable power.

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