Labour announces tax on oil and gas companies to create a Just Transition Fund for a green economy

Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:03

At the launch of Labour's manifesto, Jeremy Corbyn announced a radical plan to tax oil and gas companies to fund the Green Industrial Revolution. The Labour leader said “it isn’t fair to heap the cost of the climate emergency onto the nurse, the builder or the energy worker” so under Labour “the big oil and gas corporations that profit from heating up our planet will shoulder the burden and pay their fair share”. The next Labour government will create a Just...Request free trial