‘Right direction’: Hull begins to turn towards green energy future

Budget offered little detail on UK response to climate crisis, but city will be key test of success on green economy and levelling up'

The UK's energy revolution has a surprisingly artisanal feel. In the vast halls of a wind turbine blade factory in Hull, workers manually unroll layers of fibreglass and balsa wood into 81-metre moulds, before resins and paint are added. The blades are then shipped to the middle of the North Sea to generate clean electricity.

They also generate jobs - 1,000 on the Siemens Gamesa site, plus another 200 to come after an investment of 186m to make bigger 108-metre blades. The site is the epitome of Boris Johnson's claim that green jobs can help to level up" Britain's neglected regions.