Latest editorial
Outrage as Starmer drops green pledges
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaking at the launch of the Labour party's mission on cheaper green power, setting out policies on clean energy, at Nova Innovation, Edinburgh, June 19, 2023
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer abandoned the fight against climate change today by dropping his plans for a £28 billion-a-year green prosperity fund.
In his most widely trailed U-turn yet, the party confirmed the “fiscal rules” he has shackled himself to would take priority over tackling climate change.
Labour has been dithering over the policy in public for months, alarmed that the Tories were using the commitment to assert that it meant a Starmer government would put up taxes.
More from this author
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
But Business Secretary downplays prospect of full nationalisation and declines to extend emergency assistance to Port Talbot or Grangemouth
