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How great would Great British Energy be?
Would Starmer’s planned energy firm be a state-owned, cost-cutting, green energy giant that shows Labour is looking to the future with its core values intact? Or would it be a single windmill and a drab kiosk, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer making his keynote address during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.
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KEIR STARMER’S Great British Energy announcement, a proposed energy firm that will be a “partnership” between the government and private business, is part of a slight leftwards lean.
Partly this is because now the “moderates” fully control the party they don’t just see abandoning public ownership as part of their primary mission — which was unseating the left.
In charge, they can let their hair down and promise voters something. But in part it is also because the left kept pushing on the idea of publicly owned energy to address the crisis. The left kept the idea alive and as the right has few ideas, its has adopted this one.
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