@rzeta0 @aral Remember there's a also tradition within Labour of harking back to the good old days of Harold Wilson's "white heat of technology" in the early 1960s. Never mind that Wilson had a scientific civil service to advise him (Thatcher axed it because it didn't give her the answers she wanted).
Starmer's drunk the kool-aid, is too unaware to realize he's been fed a line, and has no technically educated advisors to give him a reality check.