Keir Starmer's Big Green £28bn U-turn
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Labour ditching it’s £28bn green investment pledge.
The spending, announced in 2021, had been a key part of the party's plans to reach climate targets and secure green jobs. The U-turn has already faced criticism from within Labour.
Chris has been speaking to Keir Starmer, who's blaming the Conservatives. James and Chris are also joined by the Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | So Chris, you landed an interview with Sir Kere Starmer this afternoon. |
| 0:08.4 | Yes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I was watching it and listening to it coming in here. And it struck me that it might have been quite tricky for you and we can have a |
| 0:16.9 | listen as much as a watch to find out why. |
| 0:19.5 | Well I can't ignore the fact that the Conservatives have done huge damage to the economy. |
| 0:25.0 | That's not what I'm wanting to. |
| 0:27.0 | And pretend it didn't people. |
| 0:29.0 | And I can't do that. They've done the damage. |
| 0:31.0 | It will fall to us to fix the economy. |
| 0:34.7 | Unannounced the commitments that I haven't made. |
| 0:38.8 | One final question from around a separate topic. |
| 0:40.9 | That's our nightmare, isn't it? You press record and |
| 0:44.3 | immediately the construction work starts, the rain starts pouring down, the airplanes |
| 0:49.8 | are coming in, the ambulance is coming. The lightest of drizzle but then thankfully goes away. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, that is the joy of telly where just occasionally it's an occupational hazard, isn't |
| 1:00.0 | it for the likes of you and me, that may not be entirely you know keeping hold of your |
| 1:05.8 | dignity by the end but hey we got the interview Kia Starmore was up for sunny in the rain |
| 1:09.8 | for a bit and it's February so So what do you expect? |
| 1:12.6 | And we will dissect the actual content of that interview face about |
| 1:17.4 | Labour's U-turn on its Green Energy pledge on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:22.0 | Newscast. |
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