Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero targets requiring the tripling of electric vehicle sales in just three years are not credible, carmakers have warned. The Telegraph has more.
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A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money. “Net Zero is the economic opportunity of the century… We are absolutely focused on ensuring every pound spent of taxpayer money delivers for the public”.
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Sharon Graham of Unite has spoken out in the wake of news sanctions on Russian jet fuel are being relaxed over fears of global shortages
Donald Macleod MBE, the owner of Glasgow’s legendary Garage and Cathouse night clubs, warned firms are being 'pushed towards extinction'.
Britain cannot afford another decade of IYI governance. Keeping the lights on, quite literally, depend on it.
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Théodore Chassériau – Le Spectre de Banquo. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 3,137 words Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, Sir Keir Starmer grows isolated. The British Prime Minister (PM) is loathed by the public, certainly, but that is of no importance to Starmer’s handlers, or “policy advisers” as they are euphemistically called. When these humorless young men […]
'Victory is far from guaranteed for Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage will throw Reform's financial resources at tripping him up - Labour's hopes rest on a man who isn't yet an MP'
I have long believed Miliband is determined to do as much irreversible damage to the country as he can before he gets chucked out:
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Keir Starmer resiste. El primer ministro británico aguanta el tipo y quiere convertirse en el primer jefe del Ejecutivo en aguantar una legislatura completa desde que David Cameron dimitiera por la victoria del referéndum sobre el Brexit.
Desde entonces, la política británica se ha instalado en el caos: Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Elizabeth Truss y Rishi Sunak han sido los predecesores…
The race to challenge Keir Starmer to be the next Prime Minister has blown open after Wes Streeting quit and Andy Burnham unveiled a plan to return as an MP with another Labour MP stepping down - here are the names on everyone's lips in Westminster
It is worth remembering that it was unusual for Prime Ministers to be challenged before the ejection of Margaret Thatcher in 1990.
Cuatro nombres ganan fuerza dentro del Partido Laborista para hacerse con el liderazgo del país: Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband y Wes Streeting
Leadership rivals have been circling the Prime Minister following the local election results (Picture: Getty / Reuters / PA/ Shutterstock)
Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life as rumours swirl that he will face a leadership challenge.
The Prime Minister warned during a ‘reset’ speech this morning that replacing him would plunge the country into chaos.
Dozens of Labour MPs have been…
Labour’s setbacks in England, Wales and Scotland have triggered a crisis of confidence around Keir Starmer’s leadership, while revealing a deeper political fragmentation that no major party yet appears able to contain.
Labour’s setbacks in England, Wales and Scotland have triggered a crisis of confidence around Keir Starmer’s leadership, while revealing a deeper political fragmentation that no major party yet appears able to contain.
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he is going nowhere (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Sir Keir Starmer is under renewed pressure to quit Number 10 as some of his most senior Cabinet Ministers have refused to publicly back him.
The Prime Minister is facing a rebellion from a number of Labour MPs in the wake of disastrous local election results which saw the party lose more than 1,400 council…
It's been dubbed the most "meh" election of recent times. But there were still some funny - or slightly cringe - moments from the Holyrood campaign trail as the big parties chased votes over the last month.
The mission, it turns out, is not to save the planet. It is to remake capitalism in the image of the administrative state. And the bill, as always, will be paid by ordinary Britons.
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New cartoon - Green Cr*p Hits Its Own Fans.
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Energy chiefs could be barred from receiving payouts under new powers being handed to the industry regulator in moves design to better protect customers
James Lyons, Former Downing Street Director of Strategic Communications, writes for The Mirror about the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal - and warns the crisis will continue to haunt the PM
Donald Trump is grasping for solutions to the global oil crisis
With oil prices skyrocketing after the Strait of Hormuz blockade, Donald Trump is grasping at the ‘special relationship’ for a solution.
The US President, fresh from comparing himself to Jesus, took to social media to mock the United Kingdom for refusing to drill in the North Sea and preferring renewable sources of energy.
Trump…
Because once speculative outputs are presented as concrete savings, they begin to shape policy decisions, investment flows, and public expectations. And when those decisions are made on the basis of partial accounting and optimistic assumptions, the costs—unlike the modeled savings—have a way of becoming very real.
The California-based firm pointed to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty for its decision to pause its Stargate UK project.
Some locals had likened the project to Chernobyl.
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The problem is that gas could only be extracted by hydraulic fracking, which, like new exploration, is currently banned.
The Energy Secretary is understood to be resisting the development of Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field, estimated to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil.
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was ridiculed ahead of launching a 'Get Britain Drilling' campaign calling for the UK to maximise the use of its oil and gas reserves.
Sir Keir Starmer has said it is Ed Miliband’s decision whether Britain drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, claiming he has no power in the matter.
Asda said some of its local forecourts are running low (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)
Petrol and diesel supplies have been in the spotlight since the Iran war started, but what is the situation really like in the UK right now?
Drivers have been getting mixed messages after the Middle East conflict hit oil prices, with advice including to drive more slowly, but also to continue as…