Nigel Farage’s party has pledged to scrap net zero projects and rallied against green energy projects being championed by Ed Miliband and the Labour government
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is set to accuse Reform of waging war on workers with his anti-green energy plans.
Nigel Farage’s party has pledged to scrap net zero projects and rallied against green energy projects being championed by Mr Miliband and the Labour government.
In a major speech on Wednesday, Mr Miliband will say: “We face a fight like never before. Reform would wreck everything we are doing. They’ve said they would “wage war” on clean energy. Lets spell out what this war means: A war on the workers at the Siemens wind turbine factory in Hull.
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“A war on the construction workers building carbon capture and storage in Teesside A war on the workers at the new cable factory at Port Nigg in Scotland. A war on the working people of Britain.”
The Cabinet minister will also accuse Mr Farage’s party of waving the “white flag” in the fight against the climate crisis. And he will say their plans are a “betrayal of every young person in our country and every person yet to be born.”
Mr Miliband will also use his speech to announce an expansion of the scheme to install solar panels in schools and hospitals to help cut bills. Around 200 school and 200 NHS sites have already received funding under Labour’s Great British Energy – a publicly owned energy company.
Mr Miliband will say: “This is the common-sense, patriotic case for clean energy that you get with a Labour Government. Clean power cutting bills to help pupils and patients. This is the difference a Labour Government makes; fighting for working people through our clean energy mission.”
And he will set out a new Fair Work Charter so clean energy workers benefit from proper pay and rights at work. He will say that a new clean energy jobs plan will outline how jobs in the sector will double from 430,000 to 830,000 by the end of the decade.
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