Ed Miliband is about to resign.
Sir Keir Starmer is on the brink as Ed Miliband prepares to hand in his resignation.
For many readers, the prospect of Ed Miliband resigning might seem cause for celebration. The energy secretary has caused controversy from day one by banning new North Sea oil and gas drilling, costing us billions. He's brought forward the net zero transition by five years and will spend trillions pursuing it at breakneck speed. The timetable is simply too fast to be sensible. Historic sums of your money will be squandered. Our deindustrialisation will continue at a terrifying rate.
Miliband also rubbed voters the wrong way by falsely claiming his green transition would wipe £300 off our energy bills, when in practice it's driving them up. That wasn't the only whopper he sold us. He repeatedly claimed his green drive would create 600,000 well-paid jobs. Instead, we've mostly seen losses, particularly in oil city Aberdeen which he's turning into a ghost town. Highly paid, highly skilled energy workers are discovering those green jobs either aren't there, or don't pay half as well. The majority have been created among Chinese wind turbine and solar panel manufacturers anyway.
But perhaps the most annoying thing is that Miliband doesn't listen. Whenever problems rear up, he just slams his foot down and powers on. He's bringing one-eyed ideological zeal to what is a tough technical task. Which has led to mad results, such as paying wind farms not to produce electricity, and buying oil from Vladimir Putin while high-mindedly refusing to exploit our own sources. Many will be thrilled to see him step down. But don't get too excited. Express.
