Labour defends Great British Energy plan amid concern over funding – UK politics live

Ed Miliband said GB Energy would be a crucial tool to tackle the UK’s energy security concerns

Good morning and welcome to the Guardian’s latest UK politics live blog. I’m Amy and I’ll be bringing you updates today.

The legislation to create Great British Energy (GB Energy) will be introduced at Westminster today.

The central mandate on which this government was elected was that our exposure to fossil fuels lead to the cost of living crisis and our mission is to become a clean energy superpower.”

If fossil fuels had given us energy security we wouldn’t have seen the terrible cost of living crisis that we’ve seen over the past two years.

This is about private and public investment together. This is a government in a hurry on behalf of the British people.”