Peter Mandelson slams Ed Miliband's energy plan
Lord Mandelson has claimed that Ed Miliband risks accusations of taking the Labour party backwards with his pledge to freeze energy bills.
– Peter MandelsonAs a result of the speech, I believe that perceptions of Labour policy are in danger of being taken backwards.
At the business department I tried to move on from the conventional choice in industrial policy between state control and laissez-faire.
The industrial activism I developed showed that intervention in the economy – government doing some of the pump priming of important markets, sectors and technologies – was a sensible approach.
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