The shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC: “We’re not going to nationalise the energy system.”

Asked if they would follow the vote, he said: “No.”

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    Delegates voted for a motion, proposed by Labour’s largest backer, the union Unite, to “reaffirm” the party’s commitment to public ownership of railways and the energy industry.

    Momentum, the left-wing pressure group set up to support former leader Jeremy Corbyn, called the vote “a huge victory - and a clear message to the leadership”.

    Before the vote, Unite published a survey which found voters in seats known as the Red Wall - traditionally Labour areas where the Conservatives won in 2019 - were overwhelmingly in favour of putting energy utilities back into public ownership.

    More than two-thirds of the 2,000 potential voters surveyed in those constituencies across the North, Midlands and Wales agreed that the UK’s domestic energy industry should be in public ownership.

    The motion also reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to build HS2 in full and to retain or reopen fully staffed rail ticket officers.

    On Thursday, Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said he could not commit to building HS2’s northern leg after the government “took a wrecking ball” to the project’s finances.


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