Environmental campaign groups criticise Labour government budget

Sian Sutherland, co-founder, A Plastic Planet & Plastic Health Council, added that the government’s investment in carbon capture technology is ‘nothing more than a fig leaf to the oil giants’.

“Show me the balance sheet that proves it’s possible to have a healthy economy on a dying planet? Prime Minister Starmer pledged his government would ‘choose a different path’ with the budget to rescue the years of Conservative derailment, yet we have seen more short-sighted policy choices which keep us in a cycle of planetary vandalism.

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