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Labor leader Starmer: “U-turn”?
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Britain's opposition Labor Party has drastically cut its green investment plans. As the Labor Party, which is well ahead of the ruling Conservatives in polls, announced that if it wins the election it no longer wants 28 billion pounds a year - around 32.8 billion euros - but only around 23.7 billion over a period of four years in the environment - and invest in climate-friendly projects.
The goal of generating electricity in Great Britain from climate-friendly sources by 2030 will still be met, according to a statement from Labor. The heart of the project, known as the “Green Prosperity Plan,” is the establishment of a state-owned company called Great British Energy, with which the energy system can be brought back under the control of the people of Great Britain. Labor wants to finance the plans in part by increasing the excess profits tax for energy companies.
The reason for the change in plans is that the government has "driven the economy to the wall" and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning to "use the country's credit card to the limit," the Labor statement continued.
However, the British media suspected that the decision, which was described as a "about-face," was due to election campaign considerations, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives wanted to make the plans the target of their criticism. A Greenpeace representative in Great Britain accused Starmer of "falling over like a house of cards in the wind." Meanwhile, Sunak wrote on
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