Former Climate Change Committee Chief Executive Chris Stark was appointed to lead DESNZ’ ‘Mission Control for Clean Power 2030’ back in July, which Labour loftily claims is “a Covid vaccine-style taskforce aimed at delivering clean and cheaper power by 2030.” Co-conspirators would be forgiven for expecting Stark to get on with his politically-neutral civil service job…
Stark has instead been busy publicly defending the watering down of Labour’s manifesto pledge to reach “clean power by 2030.” Labour explicity pledged 100% by the end of the decade…
Stark’s new colleagues in Whitehall must have reminded him that the nakedly political post is a likely breach of the Civil Service Code. It’s now been deleted. Those pesky neutrality requirements must take time to get used to…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”
