Starmer ‘rattled’ as ditching of green
LABOUR have been accused of being “rattled” when they were called out in the wake of the Spring Budget for ditching their flagship green spending plans.
SNP economy spokesperson Drew Hendry skewered Labour for their “abandonment of the just transition” by scrapping a major commitment to spend £28 billion a year on green infrastructure if they came to power.
Responding to the Spring Budget unveiled yesterday, Hendry said the Government had no plans for “serious high-return growth”.
He said: “We haven’t heard it mentioned here today, we don’t know where it is. That £28bn is needed.
“The Labour advisers have told the Labour Party that £28bn a year is needed, everybody knows that £28bn a year is needed and yet none of them are willing to make the investment that’s needed to protect us. The abandonment of the just transition and its fantastic ... ”
He was interrupted by heckles from Labour MPs and said: “They’re chuntering from a sedentary position on the Labour front bench.”
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn shouted: “You’ve upset the Labour leader.”
Hendry continued: “Imagine picking up on that one. Their big U-turn, their big abandonment of the just transition. Well it’s a pretty big U-turn, I know it’s one of many but it’s a pretty big U-turn.
“The fact that they’re rattled shows how much they feel this.
“Their and the Government’s abandonment of the just transition and its fantastic opportunity, from the Tories and from their shadows in the Labour Party is reckless and stupid.”
It came as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of a “betrayal” of public