SHOULD we really believe Keir Starmer hates tree huggers?
That is what the Labour leader is reported to have said to his Shadow Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband in response to a presentation Miliband made to the Shadow Cabinet.
Starmer, we are led to believe, put down his colleague by saying that jobs and economy, not green policies, would be the priority for his government.
Sorry, but it all seems a bit too neat to me, a bit too much like the product of spin doctors.
Labour’s strategists have realised the party’s green policies could make it extremely unpopular with many voters, who fear being lumbered with a large bill for net zero.