Analysis: Can Keir Starmer's clean energy rhetoric match with real action?

Jun 19, 2023 View Original Article
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"Arguably all of these ambitions are likely to have been made easier and cheaper if the UK was a member of the European Union - something Sir Keir, particularly in Scotland, will struggle to square his opposition to."
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2% Conservative
"Labour is keen to tap into fears over soaring energy prices, rightly pointing out that renewable homegrown energy is the cheapest and most secure method of keeping the lights on."
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-2% Liberal
"According to a transcript of the meeting with Blinken, Xi said he was pleased with the outcome of Blinken's earlier meetings with top Chinese diplomats and said restarting the Bali agenda were of great importance."
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56% Conservative
"According to a transcript of the meeting with Blinken, Xi said he was pleased with the outcome of Blinken's earlier meetings with top Chinese diplomats and said restarting the Bali agenda were of great importance."
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56% Conservative
"Blinken's trip is expected to herald a new round of visits by senior U.S. and Chinese officials to each other's countries, possibly including a meeting between Xi and Biden in India or the U.S in the coming months."
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46% Conservative
"Blinken's trip is expected to herald a new round of visits by senior U.S. and Chinese officials to each other's countries, possibly including a meeting between Xi and Biden in India or the U.S in the coming months."
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46% Conservative
"Yet Blinken and Xi pronounced themselves satisfied with progress made during the two days of talks, without pointing to specific areas of agreement beyond a mutual decision to return to a broad agenda for cooperation and competition endorsed last year year by Xi and President Joe Biden at a summit in Bali."
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30% Conservative
"Yet Blinken and Xi pronounced themselves satisfied with progress made during the two days of talks, without pointing to specific areas of agreement beyond a mutual decision to return to a broad agenda for cooperation and competition endorsed last year year by Xi and President Joe Biden at a summit in Bali."
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30% Conservative
"In his remarks to Xi during the 35-minute session at the Great Hall of the People, a meeting that was expected but not aounced until an hour before it started, Blinken said the United States and China have an obligation and responsibility to manage our relationship."
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10% Conservative
"Subscribe TodayThe United States is committed to doing that, Blinken said."
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"The Chinese side has made our position clear, and the two sides have agreed to follow through the common understandings President Biden and I had reached in Bali, Xi said."
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8% Conservative
"In the first round of talks on Sunday, Blinken met for nearly six hours with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, after which both countries said they had agreed to continue high-level discussions."
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8% Conservative
"And Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Wang Yi in Viea in May."
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8% Conservative
"And Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Wang Yi in Viea in May."
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8% Conservative
"Both the U.S. and China said Qin had accepted an invitation from Blinken to visit Washington but Beijing made clear that the China-U.S. relationship is at the lowest point since its establishment."
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2% Conservative
"Since the cancellation of Blinken's trip in February, there have been some high-level engagements."
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2% Conservative
"Blinken said later that the U.S. set limited objectives for the trip and achieved them."
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0% Conservative
"In it's readout of the meeting, the State Department said Blinken underscored the importance of responsibly managing the competition between the United States and the PRC through open chaels of communication to ensure competition does not veer into conflict, using the acronym for the People's Republic of China."
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0% Conservative
"In his meetings, Blinken also pressed the Chinese to release detained American citizens and to take steps to curb the production and export of fentanyl precursors that are fueling the opioid crisis in the United States."
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0% Conservative
"Blinken described his earlier discussions with senior Chinese officials as candid and constructive."
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-2% Liberal
"Progress is hard, Blinken told reporters."
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-4% Liberal
"Despite the symbolism of his presence in China, Blinken and other U.S. officials had played down the prospects for any significant breakthroughs on the most vexing issues facing the planet's two largest economies."
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-10% Liberal
"Still, China's main diplomat for the Western Hemisphere, Yang Tao, said he thought Blinken's visit to China marks a new begiing.The U.S. side is surely aware of why there is difficulty in military-to-military exchanges, he said, blaming the issue squarely on U.S. sanctions, which Blinken said revolved entirely around threats to American security."
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-12% Liberal
"Still, China's main diplomat for the Western Hemisphere, Yang Tao, said he thought Blinken's visit to China marks a new begiing.The U.S. side is surely aware of why there is difficulty in military-to-military exchanges, he said, blaming the issue squarely on U.S. sanctions, which Blinken said revolved entirely around threats to American security."
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-12% Liberal
"Blinken's visit came after his initial plans to travel to China were postponed in February after the shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the U.S."
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-18% Liberal
"U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said they agreed to stabilize badly deteriorated U.S.-China ties, but America's top diplomat left Beijing with his biggest ask rebuffed: better communications between their militaries."
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-24% Liberal
"After meeting Xi, Blinken said China is not ready to resume military-to-military contacts, something the U.S. considers crucial to avoid miscalculation and conflict, particularly over Taiwan."
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-32% Liberal
"Before meeting with Xi, Blinken met earlier Monday with China's top diplomat Wang Yi for about three hours, an encounter that produced a harsh assessment of the talks."
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-32% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Arguably all of these ambitions are likely to have been made easier and cheaper if the UK was a member of the European Union - something Sir Keir, particularly in Scotland, will struggle to square his opposition to.
49% : Labour is keen to tap into fears over soaring energy prices, rightly pointing out that renewable homegrown energy is the cheapest and most secure method of keeping the lights on.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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