Starmer’s ‘mother of all U-turns’ on £28-billion green pledge is the latest environmental tragedy
Unlike the slogan used to devastating effect in the 1978 Tory ad campaign against their rivals, Labour is now working. Its leader has, in fact, been working very hard — at systematically laying waste to Labour’s most inspiring plans including a national care service, scrapping the House of Lords, a wealth tax, and, most recently, its promise of £28 billion (€32.7bn) a year in green investment. With a colossal lack of vision, Sir Keir Starmer blamed what has rightly been dubbed his “mother of all U-turns” on environmental investment on a shortage of cash, and claimed the so-called “radical” pol...