By Paul Homewood
The Mail report:
Ed Miliband is expected to block a bid to ban the government from buying solar panels feared to have been made with slave labour.
The government is poised to vote against a Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill when it returns to the Commons on Tuesday.
The change would prevent taxpayer money being used to buy products from a company where there was ‘credible evidence’ of modern slavery in its supply chain.
The move comes amid mounting disquiet over the involvement of China in the Net Zero drive, such as the supply of wind turbines and solar panels.
Alongside security issues, there have been long-standing concerns over Beijing‘s use of forced Uighur labour.
Last month peers backed the cross-party amendment by 177 votes to 127, majority 50, despite the government arguing that there were already enough safeguards.
On Friday Mr Miliband unveiled GB Energy first project, an £180million investment installing rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and almost as many NHS sites.
Last month peers backed the cross-party amendment by 177 votes to 127, majority 50, despite the government arguing that there were already enough safeguards.
On Friday Mr Miliband unveiled GB Energy first project, an £180million investment installing rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and almost as many NHS sites.
ut when asked where the solar panels will come from he conceded that some will come from China, which is responsible for an estimated 80 per cent of total global supply.
Quizzed as to why British ones were not being used, Mr Miliband told LBC radio: ‘Our solar panel industry has not got this kind of share of the market.’
When asked if they will come from China or Russia, he said: ‘Some of them will be, they’ll be from different countries, but that’s why we’ve got to build our domestic industry.’
Human rights campaigner Lord Alton of Liverpool, the independent cross-bencher who championed the amendment, said last month: ‘British labour will never be able to compete with slave labour or with industries that are heavily dependent on cheaper and dirtier energy.
He added: ‘This amendment puts it to Parliament ‘Do we want a slavery free green transition or are we content to allow the Government’s objectives to be achieved through forced labour in a state accused by the House of Commons of genocide?’
‘It should be inconceivable that the UK which did so much to end the scourge of slavery around the world would today accept or be willing to turn a blind eye on products made by a state with an imposed system of forced labour.’
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Shame on the deluded fool Miliband. How dare he complain about petrostate dictators, when he is happy to get into bed with the disgusting dictators in China.
Is there nothing he will stop at?
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