GB Energy to be headquartered in Aberdeen, Starmer confirms

Sir Keir and Labour had promised successful the lead-up to the predetermination that GB Energy – which helium has described arsenic an “investment vehicle” – would person its office northbound of the border, sparking speculation and repeated questions implicit wherever it would beryllium located.

In his archetypal code to the Labour Party league since entering Downing Street successful July, the Prime Minister said the bureau “could lone ever beryllium based successful 1 spot successful Scotland”.

Addressing delegates successful Liverpool connected Tuesday, helium said: “We said, GB Energy, our publicly-owned nationalist champion, the conveyance that volition thrust guardant our ngo connected cleanable energy, we said it belonged successful Scotland, and it does.

“But the information is, it could lone truly ever beryllium based successful 1 spot successful Scotland.

“So today, I tin corroborate that the aboriginal of British vigor volition beryllium powered arsenic it has been for decades, by the endowment and skills of the moving radical successful the Granite City, with GB Energy based successful Aberdeen.”

Within minutes, the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, which had been campaigning for the bureau to travel to the region, hailed the “fantastic news” which it said volition “secure the north-east’s presumption arsenic a planetary vigor superior for galore decades to come”.

Its main enforcement Russell Borthwick added: “With the people, skills, strategical infrastructure and aboriginal pipeline of projects already successful place, the north-east of Scotland is acceptable to pb the way.

“However, we bash not request to termination disconnected 1 manufacture to turn different – successful fact, the other is true, arsenic 1 cannot beryllium without the other.

“We truthful impulse the UK Government to usage adjacent month’s Budget to reconstruct assurance successful the North Sea to support the jobs, proviso concatenation and vigor accumulation we request to guarantee a conscionable transition.”