good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. sir keir starmer has confirmed that labour is ditching a pledge to spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. enviromental groups have called the move shortsighted, and the conservatives have described it as a major u turn on a flagship policy. but speaking to the bbc, sir keir said the target had to be scaled back because the conservatives had crashed the economy. 0ur political editor chris mason is in westminster good evening, sophie. labour, two and a half years ago made this promise of spending £28 billion per year on green investment projects. then last summer they diluted the promise. in recent weeks and months they have been going a bit wobbly about whether they were keeping the promise or not. and today they have a lob to that number into a skip. 28 billion is becoming about 5 billion. they say that £5 billion would be paid for, half by borrowing, half by extending a windfall
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