Starmer defends 'honest' U-turn on green pledge

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour is being “straight” with voters, as the party faced criticism over the decision to ditch a key pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green projects. “Every family knows that they’ve had to adjust their plans. We’ve now had to adjust our plans,” he said during a visit with Rachel Reeves to an advanced manufacturing research facility in the West Midlands. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn