I can't explain why someone in communications got stuck on the 28bn figure, said one shadow minister. It's kind of meaningless if it's not actually attached to planned investments for a purpose.
Officials insisted on Friday afternoon that Jones's words did not signal an end to the 28bn ambition, as Starmer has termed it. But observers note that while Starmer continues to talk about the figure in public, none of the shadow Treasury team does.
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