{"id":145608,"date":"2023-11-27T01:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=145608"},"modified":"2023-11-27T01:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:56:14","slug":"keir-starmer-rows-back-on-28-billion-a-year-green-investments-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/world-news\/keir-starmer-rows-back-on-28-billion-a-year-green-investments-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer rows back on \u00a328 billion a year green investments plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
Labour yesterday appeared to have pushed back plans to spend \u00a328billion a year on green investment after warnings that it would damage the economy.<\/p>\n
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, said the commitment would now be met ‘towards the end of the next Parliament’ should Labour win the election.<\/p>\n
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has already scaled back the plans due to the economic situation, saying the policy would ‘ramp up’ by the middle of the first parliament.<\/p>\n
And Keir Starmer has faced fresh ‘Sir Flip-Flop’ accusations over the latest apparent policy shift, The Mail On Sunday reported.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Mr Jones appeared to delay the plan further on BBC1’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n
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Keir Starmer has faced fresh ‘Sir Flip-Flop’ accusations over the latest apparent policy shift<\/p>\n
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Labour has denied claims Sir Keir wants to scale back the green fund altogether<\/p>\n
A Labour source said Mr Jones had meant to say ‘in the second half of the parliament’.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones also said Labour was committed to the plan but that ‘it would only be introduced if national debt was falling as a percentage of the size of the economy’.<\/p>\n
He was responding to reports that the Labour leader’s aides have urged Ms Reeves to cut back the fund, which would mean borrowing billions a year, The Telegraph reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Labour has denied claims Sir Keir wants to scale back the green fund altogether.<\/p>\n
It comes as the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride wrote to Labour to demand clarity on its position on welfare reform.<\/p>\n