Rishi Sunak up first as PM & Keir Starmer face grilling from Sun readers
Darren Jones told a local activist meeting in Bristol that Sir Keir’s scaled down £28bn for eco-energy funding was only a “tiny” amount.The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury even admitted the £5bn of Net Zero funding promised in the manifesto “made it sound as if we basically junked the whole thing but we definitely haven’t”.
In a recording obtained by The Telegraph, Mr Jones told the public meeting in Bristol that Labour would also prioritise green transition policies despite industry experts branding them unsustainable. The leaked comments will set off more sparks over Labour’s spending plans ahead of tonight’s TV debate between
The Tories have repeatedly claimed that Sir Keir’s plans will cost more than listed in the Labour manifesto and will lead to a string of brutalgrid “is still one of the top five priorities and it is going to be a huge amount of effort to get there because we’ll have to move quite quickly.”was about that specific 28 , which because journalists saw conflict made it sound as if we basically junked the whole thing but we definitely haven’t.
And probed on whether £28bn was enough, Jones admitted: “No, it’s tiny. Hundreds of billions of pounds we need.”And criticising his own party, he added: “It wasn’t really defined well enough in the first place, so we probably shouldn’t have announced it in the way we did”., the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said Sir Keir “must be straight with people and urgently explain what taxes will Labour put up” to fund the green investment plan.
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