Who’s in charge of Labour’s £28bn green investment pledge?

Labour 's 28bn green investment pledge has come to resemble Schrödinger’s cat: it is both dead and alive.

Key figures have pushed for the abandonment of a number that some regard as an “albatross around our neck” But one senior Labour politician who has so far not stopped using the figure: Keir Starmer .

Starmer and Reeves ’ relationship has been free of the psychodrama that consumed others.

While it was Reeves who announced the green pledge, it is the much-maligned shadow climate change secretary who has been its most redoubtable defender.

In Miliband ’s view, the pledge is a crucial political dividing line with the Tories .

Starmer ’s leadership is routinely accused of pursuing a “Ming vase strategy” on account of his repeated U-turns or ruthless pragmatism.

On the other side are the “front-footers” such as Miliband , the deputy leader Angela Rayner and the shadow international development secretary Lisa Nandy .