Keir Starmer unveils green growth plan to counter Liz Truss’s tax cuts

Labour pledges a revolution in green energy to boost jobs and slash emissions'

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Keir Starmer will pledge to deliver a new era of economic growth and permanently lower energy bills by turning the UK into an independent green superpower" before 2030, through a massive expansion of wind and solar energy.

Announcing details of the plan exclusively to the Observer, the Labour leader says he will double the amount of onshore wind, triple solar and more than quadruple offshore wind power, re-industrialising" the country to create a zero carbon, self-sufficient electricity system, by the end of this decade.