Keir Starmer

The government's net zero strategy is accelerating, regardless of what anonymous sources keep suggesting to the contrary

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: April 2025

Prime Minister hits back at critics of government's renewables drive as he warns backing away from clean energy transition would 'serve no one'

Anneliese Dodds steps down as Minister for International Development and Women and Equalities over plan to raid UK aid budget to boost defence spending

Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirms increase in defence spending will be delivered through cuts to development funding, just months after government backed international deal to increased climate finance for developing economies

Keir Starmer confirms fresh funding and new 'training guarantee' ahead of Grangemouth oil refinery closure

Government reveals planning revamp and new task force to make it easier to bring new nuclear plants and SMRs on line

Prime Minister announces plan to tackle ‘excessive’ legal challenges to major infrastructure projects, promising to accelerate development of wind farms and airports

CEOs, politicians, civil servants, and green campaigners among those honoured for services to business and the environment

The accusations that Labour has U-turned on its clean power target are wide of the mark, but the government needs to be clearer in communicating its genuinely ambitious plans