When Keir Starmer began ditching the pledges he’d made during his leadership campaign one by one, he made another pledge to deliver £28 billion worth of green investment per year. Unsurprisingly, this pledge has now been consigned to the towering trash heap of promises made by the current Labour leadership.

On the same day that climate scientists announced the world had breached the warming limit of 1.5 degrees centigrade above preindustrial levels, Starmer effectively announced that he had given up the fight against climate breakdown.

Most of us watching the great moving-right show expected Starmerism to become much less radical in government. After all, the institutions of the British state are highly conservative, and the political projects that come into contact with them tend to become less radical as a result.