Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Louise Haigh has some history of calling for “urgent action” on the “climate crisis”, though she’s kept quiet on her long-held activism for a little while. Co-conspirators might wonder whose side will she take when the eco-loons clamber on top of commuter trains…
In 2019 Haigh joined an Extinction Rebellion protest and exclaimed to listening eco-terrorists:
“It is your right if not your duty to stand up and wake up the world to this existential threat facing our humanity, so I am here alongside you tonight because over the world, scientists, teachers, doctors, police officers, parents, and teachers, have joined this movement. Not troublemakers, not uncooperative crusties, but people people make waking us up to the fact that we have failed.”
In a Starmer government Haigh will be responsible for the entirety of England’s transport system and no few elements of devolved ones. Extinction Rebellion will be glad to have such a devoted ally of theirs round the cabinet table…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”