Keir Starmer says he hasn’t abandoned his pledges from the leadership election “by any stretch of the imagination”. He says they’ve instead been “adapted” due to Covid and the war in Ukraine #r4today
You can still share Starmer’s pledge backing “Support [for] common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water” 
Starmer now says “would I spend billions on payouts to shareholders to nationalise energy?” - I.e no, his team has looked at the numbers and the pledge doesn’t stand anymore
Slightly disingenuous of Starmer to use the war in Ukraine as a factor in dropping pledges - in 2021, before the war, he admitted he was prepared drop pledges to make Labour electable
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