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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

FOUND: Starmer must call energy summit akin to 2008 crisis response labour mp says | Mind Blowing Facts

Keir Starmer speaks with people at Newton Leys Pavilion in Milton Keynes
Keir Starmer during a visit to Milton Keynes on Wednesday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Keir Starmer should convene a global energy summit of the same order as Gordon Brown’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and put Britain on a “war footing” to reduce its exposure to fossil fuels, a Labour MP and former government adviser has said.

Polly Billington, who was an aide in Brown’s government, warned that economic pain was “hurtling down the tracks” and a bigger response was needed to protect the British people from the consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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