How the Green New Deal was hatched in a London bar

In 2007, over a friendly drink, the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott, came up with a radical plan to address the effects of the financial crisis and climate change. He called it the Green New Deal. Plus: the Guardian’s education correspondent on why schools are going to test four-year-olds • What is the Green New Deal and how would it benefit society?. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/infocus">theguardian.com/infocus</a>