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Labour “will” spend £28bn a year on green plans in the next parliament if they enter government, according to a shadow minister.The party has been mired in uncertainty over the commitment, with the Conservatives repeatedly attacking Labour – saying the current opposition’s plans would mean they would need to borrow extra money to meet the target. Sir Chris Bryant, a shadow digital minister, was speaking to Sky News this morning.Asked about the pledge, he said that “we are doing it” – adding that “it will be £28bn”.Politics latest: ‘We should all calm down’ over King’s cancer diagnosis Politics Hub with…

Actress Gina Carano is suing Disney and LucasFilm for wrongful termination and discrimination, claiming she was dropped from The Mandalorian for expressing her “personal political opinions”.Carano was fired in February 2021 over political opinions she expressed on social media, the lawsuit said, after starring in two series of Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian as Rebel ranger Cara Dune. The 41-year-old had referenced the Nazis’ treatment of Jewish people while discussing political differences in the US at the time.Production company LucasFilm then released a statement suggesting her “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are…

Labour will announce on Thursday that it is scaling back its flagship green prosperity plan, Sky News understands.The policy will not be dropped altogether, but the party is ditching the financial target to spend £28bn a year on environmental schemes. Politics Live: PM ends ‘disaster’ of a day with invitation to Brianna Ghey’s familyLabour will put this down to uncertain public finances and is also likely to say that this is the outcome of finalising ideas for their manifesto for the next general election, expected later this year.The major U-turn comes after weeks of confusion surrounding the policy. Last week,…

Disgraced singer Gary Glitter will not be released from prison, the Parole Board has said. The 79-year-old was recalled to jail less than six weeks after he was released halfway through his 16-year sentence in February last year for breaching his licence conditions by allegedly viewing downloaded images of children.A parole hearing to decide whether he should be freed again was held behind closed doors two weeks ago after a request for it to take place in public was turned down on the grounds that it was too difficult to contact all his victims.A Parole Board panel decided it was…

The culture secretary will hold talks this week with the Premier League and its 20 clubs amid the continuing impasse over a financial redistribution deal for English football.Sky News has learnt that Lucy Frazer will attend a dinner on Thursday evening with executives from the top-flight clubs, as well as Alison Brittain, the Premier League chairman, and Richard Masters, its chief executive. Sources in Whitehall and the football industry confirmed that Ms Frazer planned to accept an invitation to attend the meeting, which will come midway through a Premier League summit with clubs to address a number of new proposals…

As Valentine’s Day rolls around, Netflix has released its limited series One Day about a decade-long relationship that is revisited on the same day each year.Ambika Mod stars alongside The White Lotus’s Leo Woodhall in the show, based on the David Nicholls novel of the same name. Mod, who starred in the BBC series This Is Going To Hurt, says it allowed her to have some “amazing meetings” with people in the industry.”I spent an afternoon with Emma Thompson who is one of my icons,” she told Sky News.”She was so generous and attentive, and I remember her saying there’s…

As is the way with these things, the stock exchange announcement of the £2.52bn takeover of Redrow by Barratt Developments was brimming with optimism, trumpeting the “uniquely compelling opportunity” to “create an exceptional UK homebuilder in terms of quality, service and sustainability that builds high-quality, sustainable homes and communities” and address “the country’s need for homes”.Yet one didn’t have to look very far to find what cynics will say is the true rationale behind the UK’s second-largest housebuilder by stock market value acquiring the seventh-largest player. Money latest: How much you need to retire ‘comfortably’Barratt also reported adjusted pre-tax profits…

A castle used to house contestants on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here is among Wales’s most at-risk historical buildings, new data shows.Gwrych Castle near Abergele in Conwy was used as the location of the reality series hosted by Ant and Dec in 2020 and 2021. The series was forced to relocate from its usual location in Australia due to travel restrictions in place during the pandemic.Cadw, the Welsh government’s historic environment service, published the full list of 2,708 at-risk buildings and structures in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.The body’s aim is to protect Wales’s…

The world’s largest offshore wind developer has scaled back development targets and announced hundreds of job cuts as the renewable industry struggles under the pressure of rising costs. Orsted, the company developing the Norfolk coast windfarm, Hornsea 3, also suspended shareholder payments in an effort to strengthen its balance sheet. In common with the industry more broadly, Orsted has been hit by high inflation, raised interest rates, project delays and supply chain difficulties in recent years.Up to 800 jobs are to go as the company – which owns a big chunk of the UK offshore wind energy capacity – pulls…

Erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra could be inadvertently cutting the chances of men developing Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests.Alzheimer’s Research UK called the findings “encouraging,” saying the chance of repurposing drugs to tackle the condition could help “accelerate progress and open up new avenues to prevent or treat dementia-causing diseases”. However the charity said more research is needed to confirm the results and examine the impact the drugs could have on women and others.In the study, published in the journal Neurology, University College London (UCL) experts examined the medical records of 269,725 men aged over 40 – with an average…