Ed Miliband has been making the most of his jaunt to India for the fourth UK-India Energy Dialogue. He turned up to a panel yesterday at India Energy Week in Delhi—despite not being on the official program until just before the event. The eco-warrior-in-chief kept a low profile, dodging all media before delivering a speech to a largely indifferent audience. Among the eyebrow-raising highlights, Ed said:
No Q&A followed, apparently causing the few Brits in the audience to shake their heads while most Indians in the room were left wondering who he was. After an obligatory photo-op with India’s Oil Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, and narrowly avoiding an encounter with Putin’s energy envoy, Pavel Sorokin, Ed then made a swift exit. Wonder how his net zero zealot pals feel about this sudden pride in the North Sea…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”