'The prize is enormous': UK banks urge government to help fix green home retrofit 'market failure'

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NatWest, Nationwide, and Santander back Green Finance Institute calls for bolder and clearer energy efficiency policy from new government

Here we go again. The formation of a new government - the third in three years, led by the third Prime Minister in three months - has once again sparked fresh calls for Number 10 to overhaul the UK's underpowered...

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