Starmer has just spoken at COP29 in Baku and confirmed that the UK’s new emissions target is an 81% cut on the 1990 level by 2035. Ratcheting up from Boris’ 78% target in 2021…
A 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is needed in just over a decade, then. Starmer claims this won’t involve telling people what do to:
“But it’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that. I am interested in making sure that their energy bills are stable, that we’ve got energy independence, and that we also, along the way, pick up the next generation of jobs.”
Funny, Guido seems to remember Miliband celebrating just last week the Energy System Operator’s insistence that family electricity usage will have to be controlled. The Climate Change Committee, whose targets Labour is aligning with, recommends “a 20% reduction in meat and dairy by 2030 and 35% reduction for meat by 2050” to achieve targets. Asked about this by the Times’ Max Kendix Starmer said he wasn’t “borrowing” someone else’s plan: “This is my plan.” He hasn’t lived up on his pledge not to tread on people’s lives so far…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”