The Chancellor of the Exchequer would like you to believe that investment is bad for the UK. From X, formally known as Twitter, to the despatch box, Jeremy Hunt has attacked Labour’s plans to borrow to invest in green infrastructure, claiming it amounts to an irresponsible “spending spree”. But as the polls clearly show, the public is just not buying it. Not as people sit in their cold, energy inefficient homes, delayed trains, and over-priced buses.
He’s not fooling the steelworkers and community of Port Talbot, who now face the collapse of their livelihood due to the government’s failure to plan for, or invest in, the future of UK steel. Nor is he convincing the myriad experts who have formed a growing consensus on the urgent need to ramp up investment in decarbonisation.
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