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Labour leader Keir Starmer during a visit to a housing development in the Nightingale Quarter of Derby, April 19, 2024
SIR KEIR STARMER must think again on dropping Labour’s £28 billion so-called green new deal, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney said today.
Citing the “terrible damage done to the economy” by the Tory government, Sir Keir dropped Labour’s flagship proposals in February.
He instead opted for the establishment of GB Energy as an “investment vehicle” for clean energy rather than as a generator, and a much slimmed-down commitment £8.3bn in green investment over the lifetime of the next parliament.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT