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…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”