An ex-minister who is now advising Andy Burnham on policy has expressed support for a cocktail of far-left proposals that would cripple the economy. You think Reeves proposing food price caps was bad…
Miatta Fahnbulleh, who served as a senior economic adviser to Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband before entering government as energy minister and then housing minister, resigned last week. She has been in the anti-Starmer orbit for some time…
She was spotted at a Lucy Powell for Deputy Leader event in October last year and is close to Ed Miliband, who has also seconded one of his SpAds to Team Burnham. A takeover…
Along with directing policy and research for the left-wing think tank IPPR, Fahnbulleh for six years served as CEO of the capitalism-sceptic New Economics Foundation. The NEF under Fahnbulleh recommended, among other things:
Fahnbulleh also supports the creation of large nationalised energy companies to “flood the market“, accompanied by the introduction of “free basic energy” for everyone.
Worryingly, Fahnbulleh yesterday celebrated the blockage of almost 900 new homes in her constituency of Peckham, forcing residents to put up with a dilapidated 80s shopping centre for more years instead. Burnham said today that his first big target is housing – it’s not going well so far…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”