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🚨EXC: Senior Burnham advisers are lobbying Shabana Mahmood to be his chancellor

– Efforts accelerated in recent days amid concern about Ed Miliband entering No11

– BUT Mahmood has told them them she still doesn't want it – she is determined to remain home secretary and see her immigration reforms through

https://x.com/lara_spirit/status/2065904214598176997

She's now 1.04 on BF

Erm, no she's not nor has she traded anything like it. Would be lay of the year that. Very good chance she's next chancellor but 1.04?!?!?!

Either that or I misunderstood you.

She's available at 1.04 as next Chancellor on Betfair but it is a relatively illiquid market.



My legendary modesty prevents me from posting that I tipped Ed Miliband as next Chancellor at 33/1.

Nothing will ever beat my first ever political bet at great odds after years posting on here and all thanks to a late night blog by SkyNews Jon Craig while at the TUC when he suggested that the Union bosses had decided that the best candidate to beat David Miliband in a future Labour leadership contest was his own brother Ed Miliband!

You will be shocked, shocked, shocked by this accusation:

Many climate activists praise China as the world’s renewable energy superpower, usually to shame the United States for not doing more to cut carbon emissions. But Beijing is cooking its books.

China’s official economic data has long been questionable: The economic projection for growth last year was “around five percent,” and, sure enough, the final figure came in at precisely 5 percent. A similar pattern has emerged on climate accounting.

Reliable reporting suggests that China has been doctoring the data on its fossil fuel emissions by changing what it counts. In March, the Chinese government announced it had cut its carbon intensity by 17.7 percent from 2020 to 2025. That number was suspiciously close to its stated goal of an 18 percent reduction during that period.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/10/china-phony-emissions-statistics-undercut-climate-claims/

Okay, maybe not all of you will be totally shocked.

Does Ed Miliband know about this accusation? If so, would he be inclined to accept it, or reject it?

Its almost as if allowing them to wipe out our manufacturing by dumping goods on us at less than cost price didn't actually save the planet after all. Free trade huh? Mugs, we are.