Ed Miliband has admitted that Britain’s consensus on tackling climate change has “broken down” and will blame imported US culture wars for the rise of anti-net zero sentiment.
In a speech to the Labour Party conference on Wednesday, the energy secretary will accuse Reform UK of starting a “war” on clean energy that would threaten jobs across the country. He will claim that its stance on climate change is a “betrayal” of “every young person” in the country because it threatens the industries of the future.
In an effort to take on critics in the union movement and on the right, Miliband will pledge to double the number of people employed in the sector, creating more than 400,000 jobs by the end of the decade. Details are due to be published in the government’s clean energy jobs plan in an effort to reassure unions that jobs lost in the oil and gas industry will be replaced by jobs in green energy.
Anti-Farage merchandise is displayed at the Labour Party conference
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