The man who brought Ulez to London cannot fail but to be impressed by a man who has doubled down on net zero and renewables after a major blackout last year.<\/p>\n
Spanish electricity prices are lower than in the UK, well under the EU average and less than a third of Italy\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Mr S\u00e1nchez is not squeaky clean, despite spearheading some of Europe\u2019s most progressive laws.<\/p>\n
He is an inveterate political gambler with a keen nose for power and possessing an opportunist streak.<\/p>\n
His political opponents call him \u201cdog\u201d \u2013 a pun on his first name \u2013 because he has proved so hard to remove.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir could still be brought down by the Mandelson scandal<\/a>. Mr S\u00e1nchez is embroiled in corruption allegations aimed at his closest allies \u2013 his brother and his wife<\/a>, who both deny accusations against them \u2013 but is still going strong.<\/p>\n The gloves have long since come off in the polarised world of Spanish politics, where the centre is increasingly a no-man\u2019s-land.<\/p>\n A conviction politician<\/p>\n Sir Sadiq may be itching to pick a similar fight with the Tories and Reform, who he accuses of dancing to the tune of the far-Right.<\/p>\n Mr S\u00e1nchez lost the popular vote at the last election but still stayed in office.<\/p>\n He is skilled at using Spain\u2019s culture war between Left and Right to glue together his broad coalition of Leftists, separatists and former terrorists in a united front.<\/p>\n The Prime Minister, Sir Sadiq might reflect, struggles to deal with the far less formidable prospects of Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n In Madrid, Sir Sadiq came face to face with a conviction politician who has a very good chance of winning another term as prime minister.<\/p>\n The contrast with his party leader, Sir Keir, must have been painfully stark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who brought Ulez to London cannot fail but to be impressed by a man who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[914,8394,205,8044,17,2402,8395,8396,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-14181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-keir-starmer","9":"tag-labour-party","10":"tag-pedro-sanchez","11":"tag-sadiq-khan","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-standard","14":"tag-top-story","15":"tag-us-content","16":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}