What is Keir Starmer up to on the £28bn?
It looked as if the Labour leadership was planning an orderly retreat from the £28bn-a-year figure for its green investment plan, but it looks more and more as if it intends to muddle through with no commitment to borrow that much but without disowning the figure.

The latest form of words was deployed by Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, who downgraded the figure to an “ambition” on the Today programme this morning.

I understand that he wants to get rid of it, as does Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, Pat McFadden, the shadow cabinet minister running the election campaign, and Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s long-time adviser who is the top official on the election campaign team.

Yet the figure survives, because Ed Miliband, the shadow energy secretary, fights so fiercely to keep it as a symbol of Labour standing for something. And Starmer appears unable to make up his mind between his warring subordinates.

Curiouser and curiouser.