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by Will Jones
There's been a lot of noise about Keir Starmer's decision to scrap Labour's £28bn green spending pledge. But there's a much bigger Labour pledge that's being overlooked: decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030.
The Telegraph's Andrew Orlowski blasts the UK's sluggish response to its energy crisis, blaming bureaucratic delays, a decline in nuclear capacity and proposing small modular reactors as a belated remedy.
As the energy crisis continues to bite, the Government gives the green light to six new oil and gas fields – but in a sign of things to come, the National Grid begins to experiment with rationing household power.
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