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.