Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow chancellor, initially opposed airport expansion due to environmental concerns but later supported plans for a third runway at Heathrow. This shift raised alarms within her party, who felt it contradicted Labour's green ambitions. Reeves's pledge of £28 billion per year for a green energy revolution was also diluted ahead of general elections, creating disillusionment among party members. Critics, including Sadiq Khan, warned that such decisions undermine commitment to climate action, with some suggesting that abandoning those principles altogether would be inevitable if economic growth took precedence over environmental initiatives.
If we do this, we might as well just forget climate change now.
I will be a responsible chancellor. I will be Britain's first green chancellor.
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