Poll: Public wants to buy homegrown clean power direct from Great British Energy

Stuart Stone
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More than half of Labour voters expect publicly owned, clean power company to cut their bills this Parliament, new polling finds

Almost half of Brits polled by YouGov on behalf of the think tank Common Wealth want Labour's planned publicly owned, clean power company Great British Energy to establish a retail arm to sell homegrown...

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