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The expansion of Heathrow is set to move a step closer as Sir Keir Starmer plans to publish the blueprint for a third runway within days

I think it's too late for this, and also I appreciate that I 'would' say this, but Starmer should really tack right to combat Burnham. The big centrepiece of which would be to dump Milliband and challenge Burnham to say whether he'd reinstate him. Burnham's 'clean air zone' in Manchester is a black spot on his reputation. Make Burnham the standard bearer for Millibandism and Net Zero, while statesmanlike Starmer realises we must go slower for the good of our national security. Burnham also dumps Milliband he pisses off activists and members and looks weak. Or he embraces Milliband and picks the wrong side of the argument.

It would work well politically, but it's probably too late now as any big moves, including Milliband being forced out, would probably bring the whole house of cards down.

That would permanently cement Starmer as entirely redundant dud from Labour’s perspective. “Asthma for our kids!” v Burnham’s “Freebies for everyone”. Only one winner there.

And we can disagree on the underlying argument, but there’s no doubt that Miliband is on the right side of opinion for all Labour and Labour adjacent voters, which is what matters here. Even Reform voters are surprisingly pro renewables.

And the hundreds of thousands of unemployed, as a direct result of the highest energy prices in the OECD, are the price worth paying for Ed Miliband.

This is just bollocks and you know it. Industrial electricity has been insane for decades here, and Miliband has actually cut costs to a small degree.

Not gone nearly far enough mind, but the Conservatives are highly vulnerable given it’s their system we are encumbered by. And as far as I can tell Farage wants us to prostrate ourselves to global fossil fuel markets which is a niche opinion at best.