• Your article (Keir Starmer considers scaling back Labour’s £28bn green plans, 22 December) says: “Others in the party, however, want Labour to be ambitious and stick to its original £28bn pledge.” Britain is in a dreadful situation after 13 years of Tory mis-government. The public services are in a ruinous state; industries that have been privatised are failing. The country needs a person of integrity, vision and presence to lead Britain towards the kindly, efficient and flourishing country it could and should be. Keir Starmer has the qualities, the experience, sense of values and humanity to be that person.
Yet he’s timorous, afraid that Rishi Sunak has begun to “weaponise” this “major Labour spending commitment”. Let Sunak weaponise the subject as much as he likes, Keir, but stick to your guns. Sunak is wrong, wrong and out of his depth, grasping at anything in his desperation to keep power.
