Sir Keir Starmer has finally applied the axe to his much-trailed, much-discussed £28 billion green energy policy. He won’t like a lot of the reaction: he’s either not committed to a green energy revolution or he’s a flip-flopper wilting in the face of scrutiny. Whether this U-turn cuts through to the electorate in the face of yet more stunningly maladroit comments from our Prime Minister is hard to know. But really Starmer should be sighing with relief that he’s managed to ditch this gold-plated turkey of a policy and found a convincing reason to do so. The best reason to ditch this policy is not because of the fabled £28 billion but because it was a terrible policy in itself: statist, interventionist, poorly targeted, non-sensical and undeliverable.