A HOLOCAUST survivor has warned that Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive risks being “stained with the blood” of slave labour in China.
Dorit Oliver-Wolff – who was forced to go into hiding from the Nazis in Yugoslavia aged 5 – has written to PM Keir Starmer urging him to intervene.
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Solar panels being put on schools and hospitals are being made in China – which has been accused of using Uyghur forced labour.
MPs will this week try to change the GB Energy Bill so no UK cash goes to eco suppliers accused of using forced labour.
In an emotional appeal she said: “Today, I write with a heavy heart, urging you to take stronger action to tackle Uyghur forced labour
“And it is with the Great British Energy Bill that an unmissable opportunity is presented to your government – to show the world that the UK will not become a dumping ground for modern slavery.
“The renewable energy sector is stained with the blood of Uyghur forced labour.”
The 89 year-old watched her father get shipped off to Siberia as a slave labourer simply because he was Jewish – and never saw him again.
Pleading with the PM to heed the lessons of history, she added: “I have spent my life sharing my story, hoping that ‘never again’ would become more than a platitude.
“But I have seen how ‘never again’ too often means ‘again and again’.
“Now, we have the opportunity to change that. The UK’s energy transition must not come at the cost of human freedom, nor does it need to.
“The responsibility to ensure that it does not, lies in all of our, and now your and your government’s, hands.”
A UK Government spokesman said: “No industry in the UK should rely on forced labour.
“And through Great British Energy we have a clear plan to build the supply chains needed to support a new era of clean homegrown power, bringing jobs and investment.
“This is in addition to initiatives like the Clean Industry Bonus which will incentivise clean energy manufacturing and stronger domestic supply chains across our industrial heartlands.
“We are also working across government to tackle the issue of forced labour in solar supply chains, and the relaunched Solar Taskforce is focusing on developing supply chains that are resilient, sustainable and free from forced labour.”
