For the prospective prime minister, each candidate has drawbacks. The post The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor For the prospective prime minister, each candidate has drawbacks. UK Special Coverage The relationship between the prime minister and the chancellor is the most important in British politics. In short, they have to get on, or the government doesn’t. History is littered with examples of administrations that became dysfunctional because the first lord of the Treasury—to give the prime minister his full title—and the chancellor of the Exchequer did not see eye to eye. Most recently, when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown fell out in 2005 over the Labour succession, the government largely lost the plot. Andy Burnham, the presumptive heir to the recently resigned Prime Minister Keir…Open
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The United Kingdom has paid Europe 15 times the normal rate for emergency electricity imports as energy demand surges past domestic supply amid the ongoing heatwave.
Britain’s electricity grid struggled this week due to surging demand and reduced domestic energy production, driven by the country’s ongoing heatwave and poor energy policies, forcing emergency power imports at extraordinary cost. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The British government has paid Europe 15 times the normal rate for emergency electricity imports as energy demand surges past domestic supply amid an ongoing heatwave. At the same time, it continues to block new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. DETAIL: The United Kingdom was hit by a record-breaking and ongoing heatwave this week. The British heat record for the month of June was broken for a third day in a row on Friday, with 36.9C recorded in Suffolk, southern England.…Open
Local councils in Britain are enforcing strict Net Zero policies that limit air conditioning installations, even as the country experiences record-breaking heat.
Local councils in Britain are enforcing strict “net zero” climate policies that limit air conditioning installations, even as the country experiences record-breaking heat. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning units from their homes amid a Net Zero crackdown, even as temperatures hit 104F this week. Planning officials in London councils such as Camden and Islington are enforcing a “cooling hierarchy” that treats AC as a last resort after passive measures like opening windows or using fans, with some residents told to permanently dismantle units already installed. DETAIL: In one London case, Camden inspectors demanded removal despite the homeowner’s security concerns and existing solar…Open
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The voters are in a state of electoral ataxia that makes political forecasting impossible. The post Angry Brits Could Make Burnham PM—Then Turn on Him appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Angry Brits Could Make Burnham PM—Then Turn on Him The voters are in a state of electoral ataxia that makes political forecasting impossible. UK Special Coverage Britain has had six prime ministers in the last decade and is about to install a seventh. This seems inevitable following the stunning victory of Andy Burnham, the erstwhile mayor of Manchester, in the crucial Makerfield by-election Thursday night. He received 55 percent of the vote and crushed the life out of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. The Labour prime minister, Keir Starmer, is now under intense pressure to hand over the keys of Number Ten Downing Street to wannabe Burnham tout de suite. Around 81 MPs are needed to trigger a leadership election under…Open
A brutal knife attack in Belfast doesn’t seem to have boosted Reform UK. The post Right-Wing Divisions Could Deliver Downing Street to Socialist Burnham appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Right-Wing Divisions Could Deliver Downing Street to Socialist Burnham A brutal knife attack in Belfast doesn’t seem to have boosted Reform UK. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) “I’ve got a message for Elon Musk,” said Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, at the last Labour Party conference. “Get the hell out of our politics and our country.” It is hardly surprising that the left-wing Net Zero Secretary should be taking issue with the world’s richest man. However, the right-wing Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, is upset with Musk too. He has called for the X boss to remove deepfake videos showing him physically attacking the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew…Open