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Labour’s vision for a smarter, cleaner future
With the IPPC issuing devastating predictions about global warming, it’s Corbyn’s plan for a greener Britain that we need, says ALAN SIMPSON

IF there are seminal moments in politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the 2018 Labour conference will go down as one of them. This was when the planet took centre stage.

From the Kerala floods to the Saddleworth moorland fires and from California to Scandinavia, 2018 has been a roller coaster of extreme weather events. 

This is the shape of things to come, but it took Corbyn to make “one-planet economics” the centrepiece of tomorrow’s politics.

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