'Bring good jobs back to Britain's industrial heartland': Labour vows to back eight new gigafactories

Cecilia Keating
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'Bring good jobs back to Britain's industrial heartland': Labour vows to back eight new gigafactories

Ramping up battery manufacturing capacity will protect jobs, grow the economy, and put the UK at forefront of 'electric car revolution', shadow transport predicts

Labour has today announced it is to support eight new battery plants if it wins the next general election in a bid to "put Britain in the driving seat" of the global electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing...

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