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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Simon Evans

Will Labour’s energy plans work?

Electricity pylons and wind turbines near Scunthorpe in northern England
The UK’s low-carbon electricity sources are already saving huge amounts of gas. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images

Labour’s ambitious plan for zero-carbon power by 2030 raises legitimate questions – which we’ll come to shortly – but the commentary in rightwing newspapers is bizarrely wide of the mark.

Perhaps the strangest was a Daily Telegraph editorial that claimed Labour’s plan “would make the country more dependent on imported gas, not less”. As should be obvious, the opposite is true.

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