How to price gas out of the market

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High gas and electricity prices are here for the long term unless the government takes action, argues Alan Whitehead MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Net Zero

The gas price crisis has highlighted (if we didn't know before) just how ubiquitous gas still is in our energy economy, even though over half of our electricity now comes from low carbon sources, and gas...

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