At DPMQs Claire Coutinho focussed on energy and the North Sea. Aberdeen South by-election is tomorrow…
Coutinho asked Lammy why Ed miliband was still in post seeing as he is refusing to engage with No10 or take Starmer’s calls:
“Last week, the prime minister asked the energy secretary to help fund the defence of our country, and he ghosted him. Let me repeat that. The energy secretary refused to meet the prime minister on a matter of national security. Why hasn’t he been sacked?
Lammy’s response was: “Stop reading the papers.” Is Labour going to ban them too?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”