Do “tree huggers” have a place in Keir Starmer’s Labour party? After the party’s failure to take Boris Johnson’s former seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in Thursday’s byelection, the Labour leader’s commitment to green policies has been called into question.
Earlier this month, the Sunday Times reported that Starmer has grown so frustrated with green policies – which the Tories are accused of having “weaponised” to spark a culture war over the environment – that he declared: “I hate tree huggers.”
