Labour Party Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

26 Sep 2017

Labour reaffirms water industry nationalisation plans

At the Labour Party conference, John McDonnell pledged that a future Labour government’s new breed of public-owned energy supply will be based on renewable power sources. In his keynote speech at the Labour Party annual conference today, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer said that the recent storms and flooding over recent months had been […]

15 Sep 2015

What will the new Labour leadership team mean for water and the environment?

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The new Labour leader has previously set out his environmental ambitions. They include international leadership on climate change, investment in green energy and protection of ecosystems. Jeremy Corbyn has previously written that “the major electricity, gas, water and railway infrastructures of Britain were built through public investment since the end of WWII and were all […]