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Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy?

It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms, says the economist Yanis Varoufakis

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We’ve heard lots about what Labour won’t do, but here’s something they should: close the Tories’ tax loopholes

Rachel Reeves has ruled out a wealth tax, but she’ll need to raise revenue somehow – and there are still good options available, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Labour’s green rowback: honest politics or a costly mistake?

Letters: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves cannot promise to spend £28bn they don’t yet have, writes former party leader Neil Kinnock, while others argue that funding a green future is not a matter of ambition but necessity

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Starmer and Reeves should listen to Brown’s call for action on child poverty

Letters: Susan Treagus thinks Labour’s top team should ask the former chancellor for policy help, Shelagh Young says destitute families deserve more, and Les Bonney advocates reading the poem Timothy Winters

The Guardian - UK

By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum

Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories

The Guardian - UK

Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

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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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OPINION - Keir Starmer chose the lesser of two evils by ditching his £28bn green target

Once upon a time, it was possible to be all things to all people. Back in 1993, when Sir Tony Blair was invited to contribute his favourite recipe to the Islington Cookbook, he selected fettuccine with olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and capers. By the time he entered Downing Street, his…

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch says death threats have ‘intensified’ since publication of Nadine Dorries book – as it happened

Business secretary says people have ‘latched onto’ claims made in Nadine Dorries book that puts forward elaborate conspiracy theories

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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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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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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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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Tory Top Team send the Mighty Philpster to tackle PMQs trans joke fallout

As Labour agonised over their £28bn-a-year green pledge, No 10 was working on mitigating Sunak’s latest PMQs disaster

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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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Starmer to scale back home insulation scheme as part of green policy U-turn

Exclusive: Labour insiders say scheme singled out for attack by Tories this week will be major victim of U-turn over £28bn plans

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Starmer ‘unwavering’ over Labour green pledge despite claims party dropping it

Labour leader says £28bn green investment ‘desperately needed’ after sources said last week Labour were planning to ditch policy

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Labour mustn’t be starry eyed about its whirlwind romance with big business and the City

Like bees to a honey pot, corporate Britain is swarming in the direction of power

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Labour Backtrack On £28 Billion Green Investment Pledge After Weeks Of Confusion

With a UK general election looming, the Labour Party are starting to persuade business and financial sector leaders that it can be trusted to grow the economy.

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s mixed messages on £28bn green pledge put it in worst of all worlds

Tories watch on delighted as Starmer repeats figure while the shadow Treasury team distance themselves

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A message to Starmer from the US: ditching your £28bn climate plan isn’t just cowardly – it’s bad politics

Folding in the face of Tory attacks won’t win Labour any votes. Joe Biden has shown how this spending can pay off electorally, says New Republic writer Kate Aronoff

Evening Standard

Labour leadership feel heat as they go cold over £28billion green plan

Backers of 'Green Prosperity Plan' urge defiance against relentless Tory attacks

The Guardian - UK

Senior MP all but confirms Labour has dropped £28bn green investment target

Darren Jones says party will decide budget based on state of economy and individual projects if it wins election

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Labour to ditch £28bn annual green investment pledge, party sources say

Exclusive: Party will keep plan to invest in green infrastructure but will in effect cut green ambitions by about two-thirds

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