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Too many empty promises
DIANE ABBOTT explains the consequences of Labour dropping the green investment plan
PROMISES, PROMISES: Labour leader Sir 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 last June
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US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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POLITICIANS are allowed to change their minds, especially when facts change. They are also allowed to change policies, otherwise every manifesto would be the same as the last one.
But what the voters do not accept is being hoodwinked. And they thoroughly reject policies that will make them worse off. In the decision to drop the Labour Party’s £28 billion green investment plan, Keir Starmer is guilty of both.
The decision to cut the investment programme (the Financial Times says that it has been cut to £4.7bn a year) is shocking but not surprising.
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