Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility | Andrew Rawnsley

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in governmentI know a dead pledge when I see one, and I'm looking at one now. Labour's green prosperity plan is history. It's kicked the bucket, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-pledge. It has suffered the same fate as the Norwegian Blue in Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.The abandonment of the commitment to invest ?28bn a year to accelerate the transition to a carbon-free economy is not a routine political volte-face. This was Sir Keir Starmer's signature pledge, one launched with tremendous fanfare as his flagship policy in 2021. There has not been a larger, more contentious or more excruciating U-turn during his time as Labour leader. Continue reading...