Ed Miliband: 'Green is not just the ethical choice, it is the economic choice'

Michael Holder
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Ed Miliband at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 | Credit: Incisive Media
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Ed Miliband at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 | Credit: Incisive Media

Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary hails the social and economic virtues of the net zero transition at last night's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards

Ed Miliband last night promised that a Labour government would provide long-term certainty to businesses through the delivery of an ambitious new climate policy framework, as he hailed the net zero transition...

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