Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour is being “straight” with voters, as the party faced criticism over the decision to ditch a key pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green projects. “Every family knows that they’ve had to adjust their plans. We’ve now had to adjust our plans,” he said during a visit with Rachel Reeves to an advanced manufacturing research facility in the West Midlands. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 This government has done huge damage to our economy.
00:04 Every family knows that.
00:05 They've had to adjust their plans.
00:06 We've now had to adjust our plans.
00:09 And I think the British public appreciate us being straight
00:12 and saying, because of the damage
00:14 that the Tories have done to the economy,
00:16 we can't now do everything that we wanted to do.
00:19 I'd much rather be straight with the British public
00:22 than make a promise that I can't keep.
00:24 So those commitments that we've made to the Green Prosperity
00:28 Plan, Clean Power by 2030, all those commitments remain,
00:32 and they're fully costed.
00:33 But we can't now afford to make new investments
00:36 that we otherwise would have done because of the damage
00:38 that's been done to the economy.
00:40 The ambition is Clean Power by 2030.
00:43 And I've assured myself that all of the commitments
00:47 we need to get to Clean Power by 2030
00:49 are still on the table, still fully funded.
00:52 And of course, we're working with businesses
00:53 on the delivery of them.