Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister

Darren Jones says the government is not turning its back on core environmental policies. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of the next election that could leave them disappointed, the prime minister’s chief secretary has said.

Darren Jones, one of Keir Starmer’s most powerful ministers, said the resurgent Greens were “a bit like the populist left version of the populist right” of Reform UK, and that both were in danger of letting down voters.