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Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to give Swansea its Tidal Lagoon if he became Prime Minister.

The Labour leader is visiting Wales today where he's expected to announce a host of green energy projects.

Among them, he says he would back major energy infrastructure projects like the Swansea Tidal Lagoon.

The lagoon was scrapped in June 2018 after the UK Government said it did not offer value for money.

It had been hoped that the £1.3bn scheme would be a pilot project that would pave the way for much larger lagoons in Cardiff, Newport and Colwyn Bay.

Other policies he's expected to announce are bringing the National Grid into public ownership and the mass installation of solar panels on nearly two million homes – with low-income and social renting households prioritised.

He is visiting the Centre for Alternative Technology on Friday in Machynlleth.

Earlier this year, the Welsh Labour Government declared a climate emergency - Mr Corbyn will say the party will make that a UK policy.

He also criticised the scrapping of the Warm Front scheme in England by the Tories in 2013 that has cost five million households an average of £755 and pumped millions of cars’ worth of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

Speaking ahead of his visit, Mr Corbyn said: "The next Labour government will turn the Tories' failed approach on its head with a Green Industrial Revolution to tackle the climate emergency, create hundreds of thousands of good green jobs in every region and nation of our country and save millions of households money on their bills.

"From the mass installation of solar panels, insulating homes, building of the Swansea Tidal Lagoon, expanding solar and wind energy and bringing the National Grid into public ownership, Labour’s Green Industrial Revolution will benefit working class people by cutting energy bills, creating good jobs in new, green industries and fighting the climate emergency.

"This task is urgent. Labour in Wales is showing the action that can be taken in government.

"Together with a Labour Government across the UK, we will go further and faster to transform our society, tackle inequality and avoid environmental destruction."