Labour is pledging to scrap the Conservatives’ plan to ban new gas boilers from 2035 as stated by the party’s shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband.

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Miliband was quoted by the Daily Telegraph saying that “no one should be forced to rip out their boiler under Labour.”

It is taken for granted that Labour will win the General Election and Miliband promises there will be financial help to ‘encourage’ people to switch to heat pumps.

The soon to be debunked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said last year that  “most people wouldn’t have to switch until they were replacing their boiler anyway and then not until 2035.”

Miliband told the Telegraph: “We haven’t stuck with the government’s 2035 target when you can’t replace your old boiler. I know that we’ve got to show that heat pumps are affordable and work for people.”

He says the electric heat pumps are the most feasible alternative to gas boilers and he will find ‘encouragements’ for a significant wave of installations if Labour gets the keys to No.10.

Miliband continues: “I think one good thing the government did, among a number of bad things, was to increase the heat pump grant to £7,500.” The Boiler Upgrade Scheme was introduced last year offering household grants of up to £7,500 to fit the heat pumps.

The newspaper says Labour will probably extend this type of scheme to millions of additional homes.