Labour has cut its green investment plans by half, ending weeks of speculation and confirming the biggest and most controversial U-turn of Keir Starmer’s leadership.…
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Starmer to announce scaling back of £28bn green investment plan
Keir Starmer will announce on Thursday that he is scaling back Labour’s £28bn green investment programme, in his biggest policy U-turn since becoming party leader.…
View More Starmer to announce scaling back of £28bn green investment planStarmer ‘unwavering’ over Labour green pledge despite claims party dropping it
Keir Starmer has said Labour’s policy pledge to spend £28bn a year on green investment is “desperately needed,” as he re-opened an issue that has…
View More Starmer ‘unwavering’ over Labour green pledge despite claims party dropping itLabour to ditch £28bn annual green investment pledge, party sources say
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are ditching Labour’s flagship policy pledge to spend £28bn a year on green investment, party sources have said. The sources…
View More Labour to ditch £28bn annual green investment pledge, party sources sayUK should invest in green economy instead of tax giveaways, Lstudy shows
The UK should invest £26bn a year in a low-carbon economy to revive prosperity instead of planning tax giveaways that will only lead to further…
View More UK should invest in green economy instead of tax giveaways, Lstudy showsGreen party says it plans to focus its effort on four seats at general election
The Green party plans to focus as many resources as possible on four potentially winnable seats at the next general election, and would be open…
View More Green party says it plans to focus its effort on four seats at general electionUlez is more than a political football – it’s a matter of life and death for people like me | Letters
I am a previously fit and healthy woman in her early 60s, a never-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer three weeks ago. Lung cancer…
View More Ulez is more than a political football – it’s a matter of life and death for people like me | LettersDropping green pledges would be ‘political suicide’, Sunak and Starmer warned
Britain’s leaders have been warned against a “politically suicidal” lurch away from their green pledges as concerns grow that both major parties may dilute their…
View More Dropping green pledges would be ‘political suicide’, Sunak and Starmer warnedLabour would keep two-child benefit cap, says Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has confirmed that a Labour government would keep the Conservatives’ controversial two-child benefits cap, despite unease among his top team over the policy,…
View More Labour would keep two-child benefit cap, says Keir StarmerKeir Starmer accused of ‘wavering on climate commitments’
Keir Starmer has been accused of “wavering on climate commitments” after the Labour party refused to commit to the £11.6bn climate funding pledge made to…
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