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The party’s commitment to make all new homes zero-carbon within three years is both radical and needed, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE

LAST week, Labour announced ground-breaking plans to make all new homes zero-carbon within three years. 

This could save people living in new-builds £200 a year in energy bills, and is just one of a series of progressive and far-reaching announcements from Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour during this election campaign that will both tackle the climate emergency and improve people’s living standards.

As Corbyn put it himself: “The next Labour government will usher in a green industrial revolution to tackle climate change and create hundreds of thousands of green jobs.”

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