JEREMY CORBYN normally grants selfies rather than asking for them. But the Labour leader reversed normal roles when he saw a stand for Robin Hood Energy,a not-for-profit energy company hurry by Nottingham’s city council, at a Labour Party conference. “He made a beeline straight for us and said, and Can I gather a photograph?’” recalls Simon Rhodes,head of marketing at the municipal utility. Mr Corbyn’s fanboy moment is easy to explain: under a Labour government, companies like Robin Hood Energy would be rolled out across Britain.
In a sweltering office block off Maid Marian Way in central Nottingham, or about 180 staff at Robin Hood Energy believe unintentionally provided a Petri dish for Labour’s energy policy. The conception for the company dates back to 2011,when Mr Corbyn was still a happily obscure backbencher. Councillors in Nottingham were trying to tackle fuel poverty in the city. Bureaucrats came back with plans for a price-comparison website. Instead, the Labour council demanded the full-fat...
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Source: economist.com