We’re campaigning to make cheaper energy a national priority. Britain has the highest industrial energy costs in the world and the second highest household energy bills in Europe.

These prices are making families struggle and killing British businesses, and on top of that they’re undermining Britain’s climate goals.

Britain’s electricity is now very clean, with only around 10% of our carbon emissions coming from generating it. But the fact that this clean electricity is too expensive is putting people off switching to electric vehicles and heat pumps.

The focus needs to be shifted from clean energy (because it’s already comparatively very clean) to cheap energy.

For the cost of living, economic growth and the environment. Cheap energy should be Ed Miliband’s priority number one.

We’ve got a plan to make energy affordable. Read it and add your name to our petition.

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Sixty German cities have trams or light rail systems. That’s true of only seven cities in England.

Our lack of mass transit is making cities outside of London harder to commute in, harder to see friends and family in and less attractive to invest in. In a word, it’s making them poorer.

How do other countries get this right when we don’t? It’s all about where the power to build sits. In England, directly elected mayors have to go cap in hand to Westminster for money and permission to build.

We need to shift to the model they have in countries that get this right, where mayors have the power to approve, fund and build transport projects.

We need to give mayors the power to build.

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Britain has a housing shortage. Homes are expensive mostly because we haven’t built enough of them where people want to live.

We’re more than five million homes short of having the same homes per person as the average of France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

The cause of this shortage, and the reason is it’s so difficult to address, is that we’ve made it far too hard to build new homes. Restrictions on land use, unnecessarily extensive applications for planning permission and a system that over-emphasises objections have left Britain in a long term housing crisis.

It doesn’t have to be this way. A sensible approach to planning can deliver the homes Britain needs.