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Market-led green growth: A conservative alternative to Labour's green industrial strategy

 

Market-led green growth offers an honest and ambitious strategy which can deliver on Kemi Badenoch’s aspirations for lower energy costs and greater energy security, and pushes back against Labour’s state intervention. 

 

The paper puts forward solutions to some of the UK’s most pressing issues of weak national security, expensive energy bills, and a stagnating economy. The paper offers conservative ways to wean ourselves off reliance on hostile states, attract more private investment, and unlock affordable bills by strengthening competition, streamlining red tape, and lowering taxes. 

 

The paper offers a conservative counter to both Labour’s and Reform’s expensive and disingenuous energy policies. The paper offers a critique of the government’s statist plan for the transition which will waste taxpayers’ money on projects like GB Energy, undermine support for net zero by overriding community concerns, push up electricity bills by setting a rush timescale for decarbonising the power sector, and leave us reliant on hostile states for clean energy supply chains.