My hope is that this is all posturing so that Starmer will look electable to the public. The UK is a surprisingly right-wing country, and a good chunk of the country will see Labour pumping money into green initiatives as acting against their interests. Making few promises outside of easy ones is likely the way to get elected.

My fear is that Starmer is as populist as all the other Tory PM’s we’ve recently had, and that we’ll essentially see austerity again…