In this government’s hands, big ideas always end up looking small. Just ask Ed Miliband | Rafael Behr

Wchicken Care Starmer The leader of the Labor Party was not unprecedented in politics. For advice, he turned naturally into someone who had done before and with him had a good personal relationship: Ed Miliband.

When Starmer grew with confidence, he remained friendly with Miliband, and he is postponed to put him as an expert in the government and appreciated his sincere enthusiasm for energy and climate. But the new captain was concentrated without mercy on winning power, and increasingly alerting to the heavens in exhaustion Brand. He was convinced that the trip to Downing Street can only be completed by giving up policy luggage and pushing less informed of people associated with past failure.

Miliband’s lawyer has been reduced. I remember the shadow minister in the shadow, noting with acid that “if Ed wants to be useful, he must expose him to the visit of all the working party in the country and explain how to lose the elections.”

The arc of Miliband describes the tension, which is still without a solution to the Starmer-project between the self-image in favor of the Labor Party as a radical purpose and the constant fear of isolating voters with a wrong type of extremism.

The pattern was previously created in the fate of the annual investment of 28 billion pounds in Carbon technology Rachel Reeves She pledged at the speech conference in 2021. She said she would be the first “green counselor” in Britain.

Reeves, the former Miliband Progger, kept Shadow Treasury for less than six months. It later came to see the number 28 billion pounds as a financial and political responsibility of ammunition to advertise the conservative party that would depict the Labor Party as rescue operations. The green counselor composed herself instead in “Iron AdviserThe climate -friendly industrial strategy in Miliband has reached the 2024 statement, but with a significantly reduced budget.

This was still a commitment to more toxic funding than other departments it received. The ambition to make Britain was a “superior power force”, after all, one of the five tasks announced by Starmer as the stimulating purpose of the future action government.

But by last month, missions were considered very mysterious. The message was rewritten by “landmarks” to measure progress. Climate work has become a sub -point that has been attached to a promise of low home energy bills.

Now, again, the government brings its ambitions. And again, this means a smaller share for Melipand. Reeves announced that economic growth is The predominant goal In each section. If this involves new runways in Heathro and GatwickThe Minister of Energy – a long discount in expanding the airport – will have to absorb it.

His compensation is that the pro -growth agenda also requires a tremendous liberation of planning regulations. This will facilitate the establishment of the necessary turbines and electricity to achieve targets for green energy production.

The climate policy, growth and political strategy should not be in a conflict. The state of transition to the low carbon industry can be made in general (people like clean air and fear of harsh weather); National Security (Vladimir Putin does not control air flow to wind guns); And prosperity in the future (the world needs these things and Britain should be at the forefront of their development).

But there are embarrassing bodies between long and short -term effects. Enhancing economic activity now It is a carbon thick. Consumers should bear some of the cost of shifting to green technology. It is easy to win against voters who have suffered from years of shrinking living standards and high inflation by talking about taxes on gas boilers and the final dates for exchange of their old gasoline cars for luxury electric cars.

Throughout Europe, right -wing populist parties made gains by throwing environmental policies as expensive luxuries imposed on ordinary people by amazing elites. Nigel Faraj wants to cancel zero goals. Conservatives will be attracted, under the KEMI BADENOCH, in the same direction.

The possible resonance of a violent reaction against green among the swinging voters is a source of concern for Morgan Maksini, the chief of Staff Staff and the man responsible for planning the road to a second term. The internal critics accuse him of an unhealthy confrontation with the UK reform and an old and ancient light for anything that carries until the leap of the left. His allies say he is planning the shy battle lines for the upcoming elections. Either way, allergies to the sensitivity of anything that conservative media loved to the “Zealotry” caricature to the government’s economic message.

The Labor Party deputies are subject to the logic that the growing economy is clearly better than the recession and the Reeves plan is the only one that they have. But confidence in the rule of the counselor was shaken by the party’s first six months unrest in his position – chaotic battles with retirees and farmers; The lack of political or economic profits from the budget.

Reeves seems to have an estimate of the public, companies and financial markets for the end of the conservative rule. Voters were supposed to admire early pain for financial responsibility. Investors, who were afraid of the Conservative Party, were flowing to the newly stable Labor Party system, not the high race tax. The failure of any such credit in the government’s accounts has shook the treasury.

In the defense of Reeves, it was consistent. Most of the package that was described as a plan to unleash Britain’s capabilities, the possibility of the things that it said in the opposition. It may work.

But there are disturbing symptoms of panic. Governments that have stocks of pro -growth policy publicly not urge to reach their own ideas. The complaint that the work seats are quietly at the present time, but in the increasing folder, is that the leadership is still, after all this time, it cannot list economic work and political strategy as a single convincing story.

There may be an interconnected indicator that connects it all together, but it is not clear. In the opposition, Reeves clearly developed the theory of social democracy.Securonomics– A confirmation of the state’s duty to cultivate stable conditions for investment and protect citizens from global fluctuations.

One of the inspiration was Joe Biden’s Multitrillion-Dollar program. Refiz quote The Great US adventure in environmental industrial activity as evidence that international trends were moving the Labor Party road. Donald Trump’s electoral victory was killed.

What has been announced in the opposition as a new economic model coherently and leading in the world is very similar to a disassembled sequence of tactical transactions. Instead of boldly walking forward, the Labor Party stems from the defensive bond to the frenzy that waving the arm and returning again. The indication comes out that Starmer and Reeves are determined to grow economics. What appears is a message that their horizons are shrinking.