Not a single country has signed up to Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘clean power alliance’ since he launched it last year, according to The Times. Starmer billed it as ‘bold’ initiative designed to boost renewable energy. It even featured in Labour’s manifesto. Although admittedly that doesn’t mean much nowadays...
Labour insists the coalition is still a “priority,” though confusion over what the alliance is actually for and a chronic lack of leadership in Whitehall has spelled doom for the project. Starmer addressed the climate-crusader congregation (after jetting there) to insist that the UK is “doubling down” on the fight against climate change, despite admitting that the “consensus is gone” both across UK parties and internationally. Now it’s time to fly 5,000 miles home empty-handed…
Local government minister Alison McGovern told LBC that the BBC should apologise to Trump:
“If they’ve made an editorial mistake, then they should apologise. And, more broadly, I think if they’ve made errors, I think the answer to that is better quality journalism, and to invest in that journalism so that we can have the standard of programmes we all want from the BBC.”