Is Starmer right to ditch his £28 billion green pledge?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Kate Andrews and John McTernan, former No. 10 political secretary.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:15.3 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm James Seal. I'm during to stay with the spectators Kate Andrews |
| 0:25.0 | and former number 10 aide John M returnen. |
| 0:27.0 | Now Kate, the big news today has been reports |
| 0:30.0 | we're expecting later today for Labour to officially kill off |
| 0:33.4 | announce the 28 billion green new deal. |
| 0:35.6 | Tell us what we know right now. |
| 0:37.4 | Well, we are expecting Kiyastama to stand up |
| 0:39.8 | and get rid of Ditch, toss out that 28 billion headline figure for green investment. |
| 0:46.9 | The Labour Party we think will continue to commit to its green prosperity plan, but this 28 billion figure of investment was the main policy within that plan. |
| 0:57.0 | So this is a major U-turn, and it's not your average major U-turn either. |
| 1:02.0 | There's several difficult things here for the Labor Party, one being that this has really been the crux of their public policy. |
| 1:08.0 | This has been the centerpiece. This has been the big promise. |
| 1:11.0 | We know that part of Labor strategy has been to avoid making promises in the lead |
| 1:15.1 | up to a general election. It's much easier to defend yourself if you don't have much to defend. |
| 1:18.8 | It's quite a smart political strategy when people aren't asking the big questions. |
| 1:23.0 | But it has put more weight on what they have announced, |
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