hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. now to a big political story in the uk, with the main opposition labour party being accused of a major u turn. the party is to announce that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge 2.5 years ago. let s get more on this major political move. sir keir starmer has just been speaking about labour s green plans to our political editor chris mason. keir starmer, let s be clear. what are you binning today and what are you keeping? since we ve announced the green prosperity plan, we ve made a number of very important commitments, like green steel so we continue to make steel in this country, giga factories so we can do the next generation of cars, a national wealth fund so that we can have investment coming in for the jobs of the future, and green energy, which will be
the person leading the polls by a massive margin in the republican presidential nominations is of course donald trump injust under an hour he s expected to give a campaign speech in iowa. well, right from the start of his speech president biden wasted no time laying out the choice for the american people, highlighting differences between him and his likely republican challenger, donald trump. the choice is clear, donald trump s campaign is about him. not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past but not the future. he is willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america, it s about you, it s about every age and background that occupies this country, it is about the future that we will continue to build together. our campaign is about preserving and strengthening our american democracy. three years ago tomorrow, we saw with our own eyes the violent mob storm the unit
Security and economic stability, while the Labour Leader sir keir starmer promised an end to what he called 1a years of decline and chaos under the tories. Nigel farage said he wont be standing for reform uk but will campaign for them. So what happens next . Over the next five days, parliament will try to get through Unfinished Business and pass remaining legislation. It will be dissolved next thursday, may the 30th. Each party will launch its manifesto in the days to follow. Then on the 4th ofjuly, the polls open for this Snap Summer General Election and the people will cast their votes. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. To the man everyone has staked everything on this gamble calling an election now. Quite a few of his mps are not convinced by the timing and he has a huge poll deficit to become. I he has a huge poll deficit to become. ,. , . ,. , become. I want to build britain, a country where become. I want to build britain, a country where you become. I want
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