After Friday's retreat by Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, from Labour's £28bn-a-year plan to borrow for green investment, which I have been predicting since November, there are a few other hostages to fortune that the party might now try to retrieve.
Ed Miliband, the shadow energy secretary, said at the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt in November that the government should drop plans to issue more licences for North Sea exploration. This was picked up by The Sunday Times two weeks ago, reporting: "Keir Starmer will announce plans to block all new North Sea oil and gas developments." Not even the Lib Dems have gone that far. Their policy is to "review each new licence on a case-by-case basis", a spokesperson tells me. So why does Starmer think he has to ban all new licences? It makes him look beholden to Dale Vince, green entrepreneur who has given money to Labour and to Just Stop Oil. Given that a "case by case" policy would be both green and prevent the Tories accusing Labour of wanting more gas imports, will Starmer change the policy in next week's green mission speech? |
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What are the three most populous Portuguese-speaking countries? (Clue: none of them is Portugal) |
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- Unusually, Rishi Sunak did not make a statement in the Commons after meeting Joe Biden in Washington last week – prime ministers usually do after important foreign trips
- Humza Yousaf, the Scottish National Party leader, has rejected calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon, his predecessor, from party membership, just because she has been arrested and questioned by police; quite right too – innocent unless proven guilty
- Not that I feel sorry for Sturgeon in the slightest: it was her party that issued a press release that led to Ruth Turner, Tony Blair's aide, being arrested at 6.30am in the "loans for peerages" investigation – which the police should never have been foolish enough to pursue
- Thanks to Adam Forrest and Archie Mitchell, without whom this newsletter would not be possible
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- Sunder Katwala: most people think Brexit has failed, but only a tiny minority want to do anything about it (Independent Premium)
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(Independent Premium) - Hannah Ritchie investigated the Canadian wildfires – climate change may be making it more likely that they will get worse over the years
- To mark Silvio Berlusconi's death, here is Stewart Wood's account of the story he told Gordon Brown
- I wrote at the weekend that Boris Johnson's conspiracy theory that he was "forced out of parliament by a tiny handful of people" is dangerous, because the reality is that he lost the confidence of the people and his MPs and chose not to fight a by-election
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Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for tomorrow |
Rishi Sunak will attend a breakfast reception with global investors as part of London Tech Week, whose conference will be addressed later by Keir Starmer. The prime minister will then chair the cabinet's weekly meeting. The Commons will sit for questions on foreign affairs from 11.30am. Three select committee hearings will be watched closely – appearances by Rain Newton-Smith, the new director general of the CBI; Tim Davie, the BBC's director general and Amanda Spielman, Ofsted's chief inspector (all at 10am). The Covid inquiry will begin its formal public hearings at 10am, with opening statements from Baroness Hallett, its chair, from counsel to the inquiry and from core participants, in phase one on "resilience and preparedness".
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"Boris Johnson asked me to do something I wasn't prepared to do ... If people don't like that, then tough." Rishi Sunak
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Quiz answer: Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. Portugal is fourth
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