“Anyone but Ed Miliband”: Why Britain’s Unions Hate Net Zero ^6.5%

Jacobin - By Nicholas Beuret - 6/30/2026, 8:45 AM

Framing Effect 22% - Overconfidence Bias 8.7% - Negativity Bias 6.7%

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is on his way out of office. The former mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, is set to become the country’s seventh leader in the past decade. Burnham is in the process of selecting his front bench, including chancellor (the equivalent of the US treasury secretary). One of the possible choices for this... more