Is Jeremy Corbyn's dream of a publicly-owned energy system the way to solve the climate crisis?

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn this weekend proposed to sweep away the UK's 'centralised' energy system and replace it with a greener system shaped by public ownership - but could such a vision ever become a reality?

Over the weekend the Labour leader delivered one of the most radical plans for tackling the climate crisis ever put forward by a mainstream politician. Of course, radical is meant to be what Jeremy...

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