Is Labour's pared-down Green Prosperity Plan still up to the job?

Cecilia Keating
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Credit: Keir Starmer, Twitter

Does Labour's scaled back green investment plan represent a betrayal of the green economy or the most ambitious decarbonisation strategy ever put forward by a major Party?

Last Thursday afternoon, the Labour Party ended weeks of speculation when it confirmed it was cutting its high profile green investment programme in half. The Party's previous pledge to unleash £28bn...

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