Why Ed Miliband Taking the Helm from Keir Starmer Should Be a Cause for Concern

WILL the real Prime Minister please stand up?

I was under the illusion that Sir was leader of the Labour Party and therefore also the man in charge of running the country.

Mr Miliband’s Net Zero zealotry is a danger not just to our energy supply, but to our entire economy, to our national defence and to the future of Britain as a First World countryCredit: Getty Despite being PM, Keir Starmer says he has no power over North Sea drilling — leaving Energy Secretary Ed Miliband in controlCredit: AFP

But apparently not. Because, according to the PM himself, it’s actually Ed Milband, the Secretary.

How do we know this? Well, Sir Keir made the confession at this week when he insisted THREE TIMES that he has no powers to grant new licences for drilling in the North Sea.

He was answering demands from Tory leader for the Government to U-turn on its ban on new licences to drill in the North Sea in a bid to shore up Britain’s future energy security.

Yet the PM appeared to think he can’t possibly do that because that power is legally held by the Energy Secretary — apparently forgetting that he is the man who appointed him to the job in the first place.

It was a bizarre revelation but it shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention.

Because while for most of us is a figure of fun, known chiefly for his 2015 election and his like a normal human being, in fact the highly ambitious Energy Secretary has been busy amassing a wealth of power behind the scenes and huge support on the Labour backbenches.

This is something — and I do not mince my words here — that should terrify us all. Why? Because Mr Miliband’s Net Zero zealotry is a danger not just to our energy supply, but to our entire economy, to our national defence and to the future of Britain as a First World country.

Think I’m exaggerating? Well, think again. Thanks to his job as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (two roles which directly contradict each other, by the way), he has the power to control not just energy, but everything we rely on for our day-to-day lives in the 21st century.

Energy is the oxygen of a modern economy. Without it, an economy dies. And that energy supply needs to be reliable, plentiful, secure and affordable. All of which means it has to come from .

insists we can make Britain into a “clean energy superpower”. But there’s no such thing.

Wind and solar power are all very well, but when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine — and especially in the cold winter months when our energy demands soar — then we need reliable back-up energy like , , coal and nuclear, too. So we end up paying twice. That’s madness.

Despite all the claims from green zealots, there is no affordable way to store on a major scale and we will still be reliant on fossils fuels for many decades to come, so why is Miliband still intent on pursuing the impossible and unaffordable policy of Net Zero by 2050?

When wind and solar fail, Britain still relies on fossil fuels — leaving households paying the price twiceCredit: Alamy

Fossil fuels don’t just run most of our cars, trains and planes. We use them to build and run our factories, to make artificial fertiliser to grow our food, to heat and light our , to provide vital plastics for our healthcare.

The PM claims that Britain will be a global leading light in AI, but how can our decarbonised electricity grid cope with the future stratospheric demands of AI technology when it can barely manage today (and that’s before we all need to charge our government-mandated and use heat pumps in our homes).

Net Zero isn’t the green revolution that Ed Miliband claims it to be, it’s simply turning back the clock on the Industrial Revolution.

That isn’t only catastrophic for our economy, it’s also a danger to the defence of our nation.

How on Earth can we build aircraft carriers or fight cyber warfare if we have to stagger the times people can use their washing machines on evenings? It would be laughable if it wasn’t so damn dangerous.

There isn’t a single aspect of our daily lives that isn’t impacted by the madness of the Net Zero policy, yet Ed Miliband keeps pushing on to his fantasy green utopia.

Even when the OECD predicts that Britain will be the economy hardest hit by the oil price rises caused by the , Miliband is doubling down on renewables, insisting that we need to wean ourselves off our dependency on imports of .

So, rather than start , like the US, or offer , like , we are instead condemned to paying billions to import their fuel instead of reaping the vast profits and tax of selling our own. It’s state-sanctioned insanity.

Of course the Tories are just as much to blame for the Net Zero madness, but Ed Miliband has put their back-of-a-fag-packet policy plans on steroids. And we are already paying the price for his delusions in our and at the petrol forecourt.

Net Zero policies don’t survive contact with reality for long but, worryingly for us, the Energy Secretary isn’t living in the real world.

Instead, he exists in his own brave renewable world where his quasi-religious fervour won’t allow awkward facts to intrude and ruin his eco-paradise.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Net Zero is systematically killing our economy one wind turbine and one solar panel at a time.

Keir Starmer claims he has no powers over what his Energy Secretary does with North Sea oil licences.

But the PM is the man who appointed him to the job, and only he has the power to sack him.

And he must — before it’s too late.

No10 PHONE THEFT DOESN’T RING TRUE

Morgan McSweeney’s stolen phone story simply does not add upCredit: Tayfun Salci

THE saga reads like a second-rate thriller.

Our protagonist claims that his government-issued mobile phone was stolen by a thief on a bike while he was working as the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.

This mysterious theft happened to occur a few weeks after to the US following revelations of his close ties with the n and after speculation about how No10 staff would be forced to hand over all their communications with Mandelson.

How terribly unlucky, then, for all of to disappear along with his phone.

And especially unfortunate given McSweeney had pushed for the disgraced peer to get the job despite security vetting showing him to be a risky choice.

Labour MP Karl Turner has openly stated: “I don’t believe that Morgan McSweeney’s phone was stolen.”

And he is certainly not alone. The Prime Minister insisted it’s “a bit far-fetched” for conspiracy theorists to claim that the timing of McSweeney’s phone theft was suspicious.

The trouble is, McSweeney’s story simply does not add up. He gave the the wrong street name and failed to mention his job, which would have flagged the urgent security risk, and even forgot to tell them the thief wore a balaclava.

I’m afraid his account of the theft is as convincing as during lockdown to test his eyesight.

As always, it’s the cover-up not the crime that does the most damage, and it is the PM’s poor judgment in appointing which remains the central plot of this woeful story.

However this plot unfolds, I predict an unhappy ending for all the main characters.