The Daily Telegraph

Leader will pledge to ramp up wind farms

- By Gordon Rayner POLITICAL EDITOR

A LABOUR government would carpet Britain with wind turbines as a central part of its green energy policy, Jeremy Corbyn will announce today.

In his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference, Mr Corbyn will promise to double the number of onshore wind farms in the UK and increase offshore wind power sevenfold. He will claim the move would create a “green jobs revolution”.

Wind farms have proved divisive with the public because of accusation­s that they ruin the countrysid­e, rely on subsidies and are inefficien­t.

The Conservati­ves have introduced an effective ban on the spread of wind farms by bringing in demanding new planning regulation­s, but Mr Corbyn will say Labour would reverse this. He will also promise to extend childcare provision with 30 hours per week of free childcare to all two-year-olds.

Additional hours of childcare will be free for low-income parents. Nadhim Zahawi, the children and families minister, said the childcare plan was “the 36th unfunded promise Labour have made since the last election”.

Mr Corbyn will also take aim at “greed-is-good” capitalism as he sets out a plan for radical economic change.

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