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SIR KEIR STARMER must fight for a “bold” green recovery that would see energy firms taken under public control and Britain go carbon net-zero by 2030, Labour activists have demanded.
Socialist Labour MPs, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, have backed calls by members demanding that the new leadership stick to the party’s radical “Green New Deal” climate programme.
The programme was passed overwhelmingly by members last year after it was proposed by members’ grouping Labour for a Green New Deal.
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
