Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves are under attack from within Labour circles as they turn increasingly chilly towards the party’s flagship environmental policy in an election year.
The opposition leadership has gone from a firm promise in 2021 to invest £28 billion a year on a “Green Prosperity Plan”, via increased borrowing, to merely an “ambition” to come up with the money in the second half of the next Parliament, subject to fiscal rules.
