'We've got to show heat pumps are affordable': Labour promises revamped approach to decarbonising home heating

James Murray
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A Vaillant heat pump / credit: OVO
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A Vaillant heat pump / credit: OVO

Ed Miliband hints at more incentive-led approach to tackling 'absolutely miserable' level of UK heat pump adoption, as he reiterates that no one will have to 'rip out their boiler'

Shadow Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has reiterated a Labour government would not require anyone to "rip out their boiler", as he confirmed the Party would drop the current government's...

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