The Tories have laid a ‘cut the green crap’ trap for Keir Starmer. He must not fall for it | Polly Toynbee

Perversely, a spectacular week for Labour somehow ended up with an assault on the party’s green policies, amid hints of internal wobbling. Despite a record Labour trouncing of a Tory majority in Selby and Ainsty, a 7% swing to Labour in Uxbridge and South Ruislip became a story about Labour in trouble, over a seat not even won in Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide.

Labour always struggles to make its narrative heard against the wall of sound from…