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Starmer Faces Rising Criticism Over Plans To Drop £28 Billion Green Investment Pledge

Starmer is expected to argue that it will not affect specific pledges on improving home energy efficiency and decarbonising the national grid by 2030.

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Rishi Sunak ‘up for the fight’ as Tories continue to lag in the polls

PM renews promise to cut taxes a day after revelation that he paid effective tax rate of 23% on his £2.2m income

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Mhairi Fraser: the rising Tory force who was bowled over by Trump

She starred at PopCon with a tirade against Covid lockdowns, and she may shape the Conservatives’ post-Sunak trajectory

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Major Tory donor among 13 new peers named in honours list

Entrepreneur Stuart Marks reportedly featured on – but was removed from – Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

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Local authority leaders criticise Sunak’s call for ‘restrained’ council tax rises

Prime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bosses

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The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it

Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Remaining Labour policies face ‘bombproof’ test to finalise manifesto

Huge cut to £28bn green pledge is part of Keir Starmer’s scrutiny of proposals in time for a possible May election

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Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book

Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people

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London mayoral election: Lib Dem candidate Rob Blackie would scrap 'phoney' TfL fare freeze

Rob Blackie said he would put the money saved into policing instead

Evening Standard

Starmer’s £28bn green plan was bungled but Labour still has bold hopes for the country – and the planet

Even if pared back, the party still has the only real growth policy in town, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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'Come back' Boris: Minister urges ex-PM to rejoin fight as Tories trail Labour in the polls

Science minister Andrew Griffith reached out to Boris Johnson to help the Conservatives in getting their messages across to voters

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Jeremy Hunt may launch ‘British Isa’ investing in UK company shares

Chancellor hints at tax-free plan for budget as part of efforts to revive country’s stock market

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Dropping of £28bn pledge marks a shift in Reeves’s entire economic philosophy

Rachel Reeves had promised to spend big to be Britain’s first green chancellor. Now she wants to spend as little public money as possible

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The Guardian view on Labour’s green retreat: wrong, wrong, wrong

Editorial: Keir Starmer’s announcement is a historic mistake on economic, political and environmental grounds

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If Labour won’t cap bankers’ bonuses, what is it for?

Letters: Readers respond to the shadow chancellor’s refusal to reinstate the cap on bankers’ bonuses if Labour is elected

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Liz Truss’s fantastic Game of Thrones

Brief letters: Popular Conservatives | Unpopular Conservatives | Curtain-twitching | Scottish niksen | Doing nothing

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Circumstances have changed, our ambitions have not. That’s what you need to know now about our green plan

No one expected the Tories to crash the economy like they did. Building a greener Britain means being honest about this, say Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

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‘A make-or-break moment’: what does Labour’s U-turn mean for the UK’s green transition?

Labour has dropped its £28bn green pledge and the Tories are underfunding carbon-cutting measures, despite benefits of net zero projects

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Labour cuts £28bn green investment pledge by half

Keir Starmer announces party will now spend less than £15bn on green projects a year if it wins election

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CBI tells Jeremy Hunt to focus on green investment instead of tax cuts in budget

Lobby group joins calls for chancellor to resist pre-election giveaways next month and spend on projects to boost economy

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Brianna Ghey's mum breaks silence with dignified response to Sunak's transgender joke

The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has broken her silence after Rishi Sunak faced a backlash for making an ‘offensive’ jibe about transgender people in the Commons.

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How Labour ditched its flagship £28bn green investment pledge

Two and a half years after it was announced, the policy is being dropped. Here is a timeline of key moments along the way

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OPINION - Liz Truss is as mad as a box of frogs, but I had to admire her launch of the PopCons

“Back again? Dear, oh dear” as the King once murmured at the reappearance of one Elizabeth Truss in the purlieu of the Palace. And dear, oh dear, here she was, back again so soon, the Pop Tart of the Tory Right, popping up in the central London toaster, this time…

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OPINION - The Standard View: Flip-flopping Keir Starmer kills his green dream

The timing leaves a little to be desired. On the day it was confirmed that the world exceeded 1.5C warming across an entire year for the first time, Labour dropped its flagship £28 billion green investment plan.

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Labour formally drops £28bn green pledge and blames Tories for ‘crashing the economy’ – as it happened

The announcement ends weeks of speculation about the policy

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