Starmer has discovered a tricky truth about green transition: no gain without pain | Gaby Hinsliff

Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall , announced it was closing its van factory in Luton , putting 1,100 jobs at risk.

In Sunderland , Nissan has warned of an industry at “crisis point” All are blaming rules introduced by the outgoing Conservative government.

New jobs will be created, but not always in the towns where fossil-fuel industry jobs are dying.

Not every worker made redundant in late middle-age is going to happily retrain as a windfarm engineer.

Change always has the potential to be politically explosive.

Softening the edges of it, for the places and people who always seem to end up on the sharp end, won’t be cheap.