Jeremy Corbyn has warned that the upcoming election is the “last chance” to tackle the climate emergency.
In his speech at the official launch of Labour’s campaign today, the party’s leader placed its policies on climate change at the heart of what he described as the “most ambitious and radical campaign our country has ever seen”.
Corbyn said: “We have to radically change course now to avoid living on a hostile and dying planet.
“This election is our last chance to tackle the climate emergency with a Green Industrial Revolution at the heart of Labour’s plan to transform Britain.”
He also flagged up the party’s plans for “real action on the climate crisis” which he said would create “hundreds of thousands of new, green energy jobs in communities where they’re most desperately needed.”
The list of policy pledges also reaffirmed the party’s plans to renationalise the water industry, originally announced at the last general election.
Corbyn said Labour would end “the Conservatives’ great rip-off by putting rail, mail and water into public ownership so they work for everyone, not just Tory donors and shareholders in tax havens.”
However, there was no mention of energy, which Labour has previously said would be partially brought back into public ownership.
The launch follows Tuesday’s vote by the House of Commons in favour of holding a general election on 12 December.