Keir Starmer blames Tory ‘recklessness’ for Labour slashing green investment pledge

Keir Starmer announced Labour would be cutting the scale of the green prosperity plan from £28bn a year to under £15bn, only a third of which will be new money.

The Labour leader’s announcement ended weeks of speculation to confirm the biggest U-turn of his leadership.

Starmer blamed the Conservative government for causing ‘terrible damage’ to the economy