Following the Labour Party’s announcement of a consultation on its plans for a green economic recovery, Angus Satow, Co-Director of Labour for a Green New Deal commented:

“It’s great to see Labour consulting on a radical, just and green recovery programme. Our exploitative economic system entrenches inequality and accelerates the climate crisis. Now is the time to use the power of the state, through public ownership, to insulate all of the UK’s 27 million homes, wind down the Big Polluters, retrain millions of workers for green jobs and support Global South countries to transition to clean energy in a spirit of solidarity.

“The new post-pandemic green settlement Labour speaks of must prioritise people’s health and security, delivering basic services like free broadband and publicly-run green transport for all. That’s the programme Labour members and trade unions overwhelmingly backed at conference last year, and that’s the case we’ll be making to the leadership.”

Labour for a Green New Deal yesterday published a petition calling on Labour to back public ownership of failing airlines in order to manage a just transition. The petition gained the backing of more than 800 Labour members in twelve hours.