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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.
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
