T he UK and US should form an energy partnership similar to the Aukus defence alliance that would see more manufacturing of renewable technology in the West, a US senator has said. Tammy Duckworth, who represents Illinois in the US Senate, has been visiting the UK to encourage British businesses to help supply the West’s decarbonisation efforts. She said the US is in desperate need of transformers to upgrade its electricity grid, but is struggling because much of what it needs is produced in China, which the US is trying to exclude from its green industrial revolution. Senator Duckworth wants...