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t’s hard not to be completely crestfallen to see the Labour Party bailing on its sustainability investment pledges, not only because of how it points towards us underperforming yet again on net zero. Also, because it shows that the commercial benefi ts of pushing through investment on insulating homes and green energy comes second to the possibility of limiting tax rises in a General Election campaign.


Keir Starmer has done untold damage not only to the green agenda, but also to his own credibility, having said two days before the confi rmation of the Party’s dropping the pledge to put £28bn a year into these crucial endeavours, that he was ‘unwavering’ on the party’s eco aims. He now looks to be a completely watered down shade of green, having given into Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ agenda to make Labour the palatable option for people still in the grip of a cost of living crisis.


With Government coffers now looking increasingly pressured thanks to a range of factors, the £28bn has been halved to less than £15bn, and only a third of that will be new Government investment. Labour’s proposed insulation scheme, which would have seen a national retrofi t initiative like no other, has been diluted from £6bn for 19 million homes in a decade, to a fairly paltry 5 million by 2030.


No surprises that UKGBC has gone ballistic – calling Labour’s climb-down a “colossally short-sighted political manoeuvre.” The organisation said that investing in net zero was the “consensus recommendation of the vast majority of industry, business, and society, but also “central to Labour’s promise to bring down household energy bills.”


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This had been reported as the one policy pledge that distinguished Labour from the Tories for voters, but now the decision-making process based on actual policy commitments have become muddier, and it’s certainly hard to see the genuine commitment to take the tough steps to get to net zero from Labour based on this announcement. But that’s a short-term concern – the long-term view is that while the UK is on a path to much lower carbon, it is unlikely to ever see net zero if the Government doesn’t take investment seriously, and take voters with them. Trying to blame all of this on Liz Truss’ disastrous budget won’t wash with many people.


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Young voters are Labour’s bread and butter; what they have done with this massive U-turn on the green agenda is make many of them wonder whether this is truly the party for them in 2024. Those voters really do care about this stuff. The question is, how turned off by sustainability are the majority – the older voting contingent – and is pandering to green-scepticism a price worth paying?


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