How the UK can transform its clean heat market

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Expanding VAT relief and widening the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to more low carbon technologies can be quietly transformational, argues Labour MP Jack Abbott

The Warm Homes Plan is one of the Labour government's flagship climate and energy policies, promising to cut bills for millions of working people. Though already the most ambitious retrofit policy ever...

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