RUSHES: Energy: Keir Starmer speech

Energy: Keir Starmer speech; ***Some video and audio disturbance as incoming*** ENGLAND: Cheshire: Encirc Elton: INT Sir Keir Starmer MP (Prime Minister) question and answer session SOT: Continues Q: On £6k gifts and 'freebies' (and refers back to unanswered question on assisted dying) I think in fairness, I missed the second-half of the question on assisted dying. So apologies just very quickly on that. I made a promise to Esther Ransom before the election.That we would provide time for a debate and a vote on assisted dying, but it would be a free vote. And obviously that opportunity has now arisen and I'm very pleased that I'm able, as it were, to make good on the promise I made to Esther Branson. The government will be neutral on this. Q: On carbon capture and storage that is why you've seen such support for the investment that we're making today. This is a crucial step forward as I say, and I really want to make this point on carbon capture itself. We've got you know.I've been to see for myself some of the infrastructure that we've got in Scotland, the geology we've got in Scotland, we've got a unique opportunity for carbon capture using literally the same pipes in Scotland, using the same infrastructure.Where, you know, fossil fuels came down the pipes, Now they'll be used, as it were, in reverse. And of course, what that means is the skills that we have can be deployed in the same places.Because one of the problems in my view when coal ended was that those communities were not given well paid, secured, skilled jobs where they lived. They were literally told to get on their bikes. We're never going to do that again. And I want the next generation of jobs to be the jobs where we've got the people with the skills, the know how, et cetera. But, and I can't emphasise this enough, it is crucially important for glass, for cement as well, because their future is locked up in this. And it's a very bright future. I think this firm has been around for 26 ye...