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Starmer has a strong green record – but a rightwing backlash weakened his plans

Starmer has a strong green record – but a rightwing backlash weakened his plans
Politics | The Guardian

Prime minister was forced to row back on some policies despite strong support among voters for climate action Keir Starmer has faced a problem no Labour government has needed to deal with before. His energy and climate policies – core to solving the cost of living crisis – have come under attack from opposition parties, which have made dismantling the agenda one of their top priorities, second only to immigration, in their pitch to voters. This is new in British politics, where a cross-party consensus on the climate and environment has held at least since the days of Margaret Thatcher. She war

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