UK’s Opposition Labour Party’s Shadow Business Secretary Mr Ed Miliband has unveiled GBP 3 billion investment plans over the coming decade to decarbonize UK’s steel industry at the party’s Brighton conference where shadow ministers are setting out a policy programme to take on UK Prime Minister Mr Boris Johnson. He pointed to similar plans unveiled by US president Mr Joe Biden which are designed to future-proof heavy industry while meeting climate targets.Mr Miliband said the party would deliver on a green new deal but moved to assure unions the transition to a cleaner economy would not mean the decline of manufacturing jobs. He said ‘About workers in oil and gas. Let me say to those people, including in this hall, I get your worries. I grew up in the 1980s. I am an MP in Doncaster, a former mining constituency. We remember what the Tories did. I know our responsibility, this climate transition must leave no worker, no family, no community behind.”He also took aim at Mr Boris Johnson’s remarks in August that Ms Margaret Thatcher closing the mines aided in lowering carbon emissions, saying ‘Let’s lay to rest the idea that these Tories can somehow manage a just or fair green transition. A couple of months back, Boris Johnson was challenged on Tory credentials on climate change.”Whilst Governments around the world are committing to their domestic industries with long-term strategic investment in green steel production, the Conservatives have failed to invest in the transition, have attempted to weaken safeguards that protected our steelmakers from being undercut by cheap steel imports, and have splashed tens of millions on imported steel to build British schools and hospitals.Labour’s plan to back the industry would support businesses, workers, and unions together to put UK steel at the heart of national industrial strategy.
UK’s Opposition Labour Party’s Shadow Business Secretary Mr Ed Miliband has unveiled GBP 3 billion investment plans over the coming decade to decarbonize UK’s steel industry at the party’s Brighton conference where shadow ministers are setting out a policy programme to take on UK Prime Minister Mr Boris Johnson. He pointed to similar plans unveiled by US president Mr Joe Biden which are designed to future-proof heavy industry while meeting climate targets.Mr Miliband said the party would deliver on a green new deal but moved to assure unions the transition to a cleaner economy would not mean the decline of manufacturing jobs. He said ‘About workers in oil and gas. Let me say to those people, including in this hall, I get your worries. I grew up in the 1980s. I am an MP in Doncaster, a former mining constituency. We remember what the Tories did. I know our responsibility, this climate transition must leave no worker, no family, no community behind.”He also took aim at Mr Boris Johnson’s remarks in August that Ms Margaret Thatcher closing the mines aided in lowering carbon emissions, saying ‘Let’s lay to rest the idea that these Tories can somehow manage a just or fair green transition. A couple of months back, Boris Johnson was challenged on Tory credentials on climate change.”Whilst Governments around the world are committing to their domestic industries with long-term strategic investment in green steel production, the Conservatives have failed to invest in the transition, have attempted to weaken safeguards that protected our steelmakers from being undercut by cheap steel imports, and have splashed tens of millions on imported steel to build British schools and hospitals.Labour’s plan to back the industry would support businesses, workers, and unions together to put UK steel at the heart of national industrial strategy.
