Britain needs its own ambitious green investment plan to keep up with its allies, a Labour frontbencher has said, amid an increasingly bitter row over whether Keir Starmer should stick to his flagship £28bn pledge.
Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, said the UK should come up with its own version of Joe Biden’s $369bn (£290bn) Inflation Reduction Act, which has provided support to a range of technologies including electric cars and renewable power.
Some in the shadow cabinet believe the policy, first launched in 2021, should be ditched altogether given the UK now faces much higher borrowing rates and Labour is desperate to avoid making unfunded spending commitments.
Matt Wrack, the head of the Fire Brigades Union, told the Guardian the public would be put at risk if a Labour government did not follow through on its investment promises, given the increasing number of floods and wildfires to which his members are having to respond.
The Labour leader has asked Jonathan Ashworth to see how the proposals withstand media and opposition attacks, and Lucy Powell to check whether they will be able to form coherent legislation.
Their roles mirror that played by David Miliband for Tony Blair before the 1997 election, when the young policy chief was tasked with making sure the party had not made any promises it could not defend from heavy opposition attack.
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Britain needs its own ambitious green investment plan to keep up with its allies, a Labour frontbencher has said, amid an increasingly bitter row over whether Keir Starmer should stick to his flagship £28bn pledge.
Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, said the UK should come up with its own version of Joe Biden’s $369bn (£290bn) Inflation Reduction Act, which has provided support to a range of technologies including electric cars and renewable power.
Some in the shadow cabinet believe the policy, first launched in 2021, should be ditched altogether given the UK now faces much higher borrowing rates and Labour is desperate to avoid making unfunded spending commitments.
Matt Wrack, the head of the Fire Brigades Union, told the Guardian the public would be put at risk if a Labour government did not follow through on its investment promises, given the increasing number of floods and wildfires to which his members are having to respond.
The Labour leader has asked Jonathan Ashworth to see how the proposals withstand media and opposition attacks, and Lucy Powell to check whether they will be able to form coherent legislation.
Their roles mirror that played by David Miliband for Tony Blair before the 1997 election, when the young policy chief was tasked with making sure the party had not made any promises it could not defend from heavy opposition attack.
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