Britain's opposition Labour Party on Sunday said it would speed up connections to the country's National Grid network as part of investment in clean energy infrastructure and to ease delays electricity companies face.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has put a green industrial strategy at the centre of his pitch for a national election expected next year, and has announced plans for a publicly owned energy company, GB Energy.
Labour said that its plans "to rewire" Britain would remove barriers to connections and "facilitate the largest upgrade to national transmission infrastructure in a generation". "Labour will turbocharge our growth, get Britain building and unlock private sector investment by speeding up the grid."
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