Daily Podcast: Labour’s local weather climbdown – how damaging is it?

After weeks of confusion, Sir Keir Starmer has lastly introduced a row again in Labour’s pledge to spend £28bn a 12 months on its flagship inexperienced prosperity plan.

While the coverage is not going to be utterly scrapped, the climbdown comes within the type of the occasion’s spending commitments.

The occasion says the £28bn goal will likely be dropped as a consequence of unsure public funds, and comes every week after Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves refused to decide to the inexperienced spending goal ten occasions, in an interview with Sky’s Beth Rigby.

On Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson explores this newest backtrack with our deputy political editor Sam Coates and our science and know-how editor Tom Clarke.

Podcast producers: Sydney Pead and Alex Edden
Assistant producer: Evan Dale
Editor: Wendy Parker

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Transcript: https://app.trint.com/public/cbdc11a2-4d14-4055-ac46-fc07cf9591d1

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