Coronavirus: Ed Miliband launches Clement Attlee-style green rescue plan

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The ex-Labour leader wants a recovery plan focused on retraining a 'zero-carbon army' of young people to work in green industries.

"Because if we don't act now to save jobs, to put people back to work, we will pile up large benefit spending for the future, we will reduce our tax revenues and we'll have a smaller economy.Highlighting the UK's commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, he added:"We're going to have to do this anyway because, by 2050 at the latest, we're going to have to have zero emissions as a country.

"This is a moment of profound economic distress for the country," said Mr Miliband, Labour leader from 2010 until he led the party to defeat in the 2015 general election. "This rapid consultation will seek views on specific measures that can be taken now to kick start a green recovery.And comparing his plan to the sweeping reforms of the Attlee government, Mr Miliband said in an earlier interview:"It's a contemporary equivalent of what happened after 1945.

 

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