Voices: Keir Starmer is about to make up his mind about Labour’s £28bn albatross – its green manifesto
Rishi Sunak was sharper at the most recent Prime Minister’s Questions than at the previous two. He fought back against Keir Starmer’s ridicule by mocking the leader of the opposition’s inability to decide whether he was committed to £28bn a year of green investment some day.
The prime minister referred to an anonymous briefing from someone close to Starmer who described the figure as “an albatross” around the party’s neck, and said: “That might have been the shadow chancellor.”
That was an accurate sally because although might not have briefed personally, she would like to get rid of the £28bn figure. There are now almost daily news stories either saying is about to ditch it, or that Labour denies that a decision to ditch it has already been taken.
