The cowboys must be licking their lips. Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck public money at subsidised energy improvements. The Warm Homes Plan will allocate £15 billion to grants and low-cost loans for homeowners who want to upgrade their insulation, and fit heat pumps and solar panels. According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, not only will it make our homes warmer, it will save homeowners £1,000 a year off their bills.

Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck public money at subsidised energy improvements

Do our leaders never learn? We have had numerous such schemes over the past couple of decades and it is always the same story: the cowboys rush in to scoop up the grants, ruining people’s homes in the process.

Earlier this week, the sorry case of Rachael Wright hit the news. Last May, she received what she thought was the happy news that she qualified for an........

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