Tom Bailey on Labour's green plans: 'We just need to get on with it'

Key architect of party's plan for a green industrial revolution says there is no time to waste

Looking up from his cup of tea in a central London cafe, Tom Bailey stops mid-sentence, exasperated. One of the key architects behind Labour's plan for a green industrial revolution, Bailey wants to make clear that the work to which he and a team of academics, engineers and economists have dedicated their spare time over the past 18 months is "a no-brainer".

"Most of this stuff was already out there," says the 35-year-old. "If we had written this 10 or 15 years ago it would have looked very similar. The curves on the graphs would be slightly less steep because at that stage we had not wasted a decade or more. Now we just need to get on with it."