TAG: Department for Business and Trade

UK considers probe of Chinese EV subsidies

LONDON — Britain is considering whether to investigate Chinese state subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) makers, two people familiar with the nascent plans told POLITICO.A U.K. investigation would follow the launch of a similar probe by the EU last Octobe...

6 months ago

Wanted: Someone, anyone to sell climate policies to UK voters

LONDON — Rishi Sunak needs all the help he can get selling his green vision to the British public.The U.K. prime minister reckons Britain can hit its headline climate goal — net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 — in a way which “brings people with us.” That’...

6 months ago

UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Labour conference

Ministers newly installed in their Whitehall offices. Special advisers moving from opposition to government. The first Labour administration for 14 years — and one marked in its early weeks by a raft of energy and climate promises which could, at least in...

3 weeks ago