What's behind Labour's green U-turn?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:18.8 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday's should-of-coffee house shots. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by Katie Balls and John McTurlan. |
| 0:26.8 | Labour have announced that they are watering down one of their flagship policies, |
| 0:30.7 | which is a 28 billion pound green project announced today by Rachel Reeves. |
| 0:36.0 | Katie, how much of a U-turn is this? |
| 0:37.9 | Is it particularly embarrassing for Labour? |
| 0:40.6 | So I think it's quite significant in the sense that if you ask someone to list |
| 0:45.5 | Labour policies often, people will say, oh, |
| 0:48.9 | or perhaps they'll phrase more, it's in the Tories of Labour light. |
| 0:52.0 | But there'll be quite a few similarities generally speaking. |
| 0:54.8 | You think about windfall taxes and so forth. |
| 0:57.9 | And the green prosperity plan was very much |
| 1:01.5 | something that differentiated Labour from the Tories. |
| 1:06.4 | They had it before the inflation reduction act by Joe Biden, |
| 1:09.9 | but it has a similar purpose in terms of the ideas. |
| 1:12.6 | 28 billion a year invested in green jobs, green energy. |
| 1:17.8 | And when Rachel Reeves first spoke about this in 2021, |
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