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Ed Miliband leaves No 10 Downing Street after attending a Cabinet meeting |
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Matt Oliver Industry Editor |
As everyone in Westminster now knows, Ed Miliband is on manoeuvres.
Yesterday, the Energy Secretary was conspicuously missing from Prime Minister’s Questions as he lobbied behind the scenes to become Andy Burnham’s future chancellor.
The former Labour leader remains the favourite for the job. However, a backlash is mounting over his obsession with net zero.
Sources have told The Telegraph that Miliband infuriated Cabinet colleagues recently by “vetoing” a Treasury proposal to fund greater defence spending by ramping up drilling in the North Sea.
A source close to Miliband denies that he was consulted on the policy. However, The Telegraph was told of fury among the Cabinet at Miliband’s blocking of greater drilling in the North Sea.
It is thought the tax revenues from boosting domestic oil and gas production could have provided a significant chunk of the £18bn that John Healey, the former defence secretary, was demanding before he resigned.
Labour’s manifesto pledge to ban new oil and gas licensing has taken on a talismanic importance for Miliband, who is said to have repeatedly defended the policy despite pressure from other ministers to walk it back.
The idea to use oil revenue to pay for defence was supported by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, and other senior figures, but ultimately the Prime Minister failed to back reversing the ban, so Miliband won the day.
Or did he? There are now whispers that the Energy Secretary’s dedication to all things net zero may ultimately damage his case for becoming chancellor in an administration run by Burnham, the front-runner to succeed Sir Keir Starmer.
As The Telegraph revealed yesterday, Burnham is keen to raise more money for defence than Starmer, so may not welcome the closing off of potential options so soon.
Today, Tony Diver, our Political Editor, also reports that the former Manchester mayor is worried that he and Miliband risk a repeat of the psychodrama that gripped Tony Blair’s and Gordon Brown’s stints as PM and chancellor respectively, one a big picture man, the other intensely ideological.
Will this row stop Miliband from getting the keys to No 11? Many business leaders – with whom he keeps frosty relations – and numerous Labour colleagues certainly hope so.
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Vinicius Junior capitalises on Scotland’s woeful defending for his second goal |
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Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer at the Hard Rock Stadium, Miami |
As Scotland face a four-day limbo to discover where, or indeed if, they will be playing their first ever World Cup knockout match, the bitter truth is that the only place they should be going is home.
Timid, indecisive and hamstrung by manager Steve Clarke’s safety-first tactics, they were the architects of their own downfall in this 3-0 defeat by Brazil in intense Florida humidity, with an awful defensive lapse by Scott McKenna letting Vinicius Jnr in for the opening goal.
In three matches they have barely fired a shot in anger, and in three straight major tournaments under Clarke they have folded with a whimper. Their passionate supporters deserve far better.
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Plus, we asked a barman to rate England and Scotland fans – there was a clear winner ➤
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Isabel Oakeshott Investigators keep uncovering identical failings, and yet nothing has changed Continue reading ➤
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Rescuers in towns and cities including the capital, Caracas, are searching for survivors |
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An electric London bus burst into flames yesterday on the hottest June day since records began.
The heatwave hit Wimbledon qualifying, suspending play after the automated line-calling system suffered a meltdown.
Britain’s grid operator issued a rare warning that the power supply could be squeezed as extreme heat puts pressure on the system.
A senior aide fanned the King during a stifling palace reception on climate change.
Elsewhere, a conference on how the world can adapt to extreme heat was cancelled... due to extreme heat.
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Prof Sue Black has spent decades identifying the dead, investigating war crimes and advising courts |
Prof Sue Black is one of the world’s leading forensic scientists and has led a fascinating life, writes Jessamy Calkin. She has worked with the police and justice system in numerous court cases, led teams identifying human remains after war and disaster, and lectured on human anatomy in hospitals and universities. Now the president of St John’s College at the University of Oxford, she discusses the crucial role that forensic science plays, new techniques she has pioneered, and some of the cases that have most disturbed her. For subscribers only ➤ |
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There is no dedicated compensation scheme to support terror attack survivors in Britain, leaving families stuck in an excruciating backlog and waiting years for critical help. Rob White speaks to people who have experienced unimaginable horror, only to face a “dehumanising” and “broken” system seemingly designed to defeat them in their hour of need. Continue reading ➤ |
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Nearly a quarter of the British public report feeling lonely “often”, according to the ONS. So a new wave of social media creators baldly announcing they have absolutely no mates has proven popular – indeed, their content generates millions of views. Here, LA Robinson speaks to them to find out if being alone means being lonely. Continue reading ➤ |
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As parts of the country experience record-breaking heat this week, nutritionist Farzanah Nasser has shared her tips for tweaking how you eat to stay hydrated, replenish the minerals lost through sweat and cool down your body. Have a read to find out what you should add to your shopping list. Continue reading ➤ Here is another helpful article to read this morning:
- Elsewhere, the second episode of The Poshcast has just been released, and as the mercury rises Sophia Money-Coutts and Cleo Watson ask: is it ever OK for a man to wear an open-toed shoe? Listen here.
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As our resident myth-buster, Sarah Knapton has seen a thing or two. Now, she’s taking on some of the world’s best-known conspiracy theories to see if they hold water. In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat…
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Sarah Knapton Science Editor |
In 1838, English inventor and flat-Earth proponent Samuel Rowbotham conducted a bizarre experiment on a dead straight, six-mile stretch of the Old Bedford River in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Rowbotham postulated that if the Earth really was round, he should be able to place a flag at one end of the uninterrupted watercourse and be unable to see it through a telescope – as it would dip below the horizon.
To his delight, the flag remained visible, supporting his view that the world was indeed flat.
However, he made a grave miscalculation. In 1870, the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, returned to the river and showed that Rowbotham had seen the flag because of atmospheric refraction – a distorting effect that makes objects appear higher.
He carried out his own experiment, placing five posts much higher along the river to avoid refraction, and demonstrated that the middle post was slightly taller than those further downstream, as they fell away with the Earth’s curvature.
Despite this, Wallace’s experiment failed to convince the flat-Earthers, and to this day many still reject the scientific consensus of a spherical planet spinning at more than 1,000mph...
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Creature comfortsWhile Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, is away, Kate Moore is on hand to share an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Kate writes...
Walking in St James’s Park yesterday, I had an encounter with a representative of royal tradition. Tourists were picking their way around a pelican that was making its unruffled journey back towards the water.
There was good reason to swagger, too: officials report that four new chicks have now emerged, the first to hatch in St James’s Park in more than 360 years. My impression of that bumptious bird chimed with that of several readers, whose memories were a mixture of delight and awe.
“Watching them land in the Gulf next to you while you’re swimming, as they dive-bomb for fish, then bob atop the surf like open umbrellas, is a treat,” said Kate Robertson.
A reader going by Just Jen recounted a rescue effort in central London a few months ago: “We found three of them on the main road, among the traffic, in the middle of the night. It took ages to shepherd them back to the park.”
Nature is red in tooth and claw, and we would be foolish to neglect that fact. There is footage on YouTube of a pelican in a zoo trying to swallow a capybara, one of those permanently inscrutable rodents from South America. The attempt does not succeed, but the bird’s dedication is quite something.
“When I was a child more than 60 years ago, I would visit them as a birthday treat,” recalled Chris Rigg. “On one occasion, however, on returning home, I overheard my mum telling my dad that she had gone off them, and wasn’t going to take me again. She was sure she’d seen a pelican grab a sparrow that was eating the snack we’d taken for the pelicans.”
Jane Brown could vouch for such behaviour: “Some years ago, walking in St James’s Park, we saw a pelican swallow a whole pigeon. We wondered how long it would be before it needed another meal.” That’s all from me today. If you have any more nature notes to contribute, you can send them here.
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1950 | North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War (see our front page from the following day below)
1978 | The rainbow flag is first used at a Pride event in San Francisco
2021 | Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 years and six months for the murder of George Floyd
Birthdays: Sheridan Smith (45), Phill Jupitus (64), Ricky Gervais (65)
Plus, in the news today, a witch doctor from Ghana who “cursed” an England player claims to have “released” them from the hex. Who is the footballer?
Nana Kwaku Bonsam has lifted the ‘curse’ he said he put on an England player |
1. Declan Rice
2. Jordan Pickford
3. Bukayo Saka
4. Harry Kane
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