In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland says that Labour's route out of the black hole has to be green with just a hint of blue, arguing not so much for cross-party cross-dressing as cross-party cross colour coding. Freedland is one of many people who think Labour's backing for the third Heathrow runway undermines its credibility on environmental issues:
it's hard to believe ministers are sincere about reaching targets - set for dates long after their political lifetimes - when they, to take the most neuralgic example, give the go-ahead to a third runway at Heathrow. Instead it encourages the belief that Labour is a lush shade of green when it's in the realm of rhetoric and the distant future - but the colour of concrete and tarmac when it comes to the now.Meanwhile the IPPR calls for a package of "red and green" taxes in the budget, jumping the gun on a report it will publish in the summer.
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