{"id":402448,"date":"2025-09-06T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:52:10","slug":"one-man-survived-starmers-cabinet-bloodbath-hell-tear-country-apart-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402448\/","title":{"rendered":"One man survived Starmer’s cabinet bloodbath. He’ll tear country apart | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were two exceptions. Rachel Reeves is still Chancellor, though she won\u2019t be popping the champagne. She’s been sneakily sidelined by the PM, who’s appointed his own team of Treasury advisers to watch her every move and report back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reeves will still deliver November’s Budget, but she won\u2019t write it. Instead, she\u2019ll carry the can when it goes wrong. Which it will.<\/p>\n

After Angela Rayner<\/a> was forced out for stamp duty dodging<\/a>, Starmer seized the opportunity to chop a host of underperforming ministers too.<\/p>\n

David Lammy lost the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper was ejected as Home Secretary<\/a>, Liz Kendall was dumped from Work and Pensions.<\/p>\n

Never fear, they\u2019ll resurface in lesser posts. Naturally, they\u2019ll keep drawing their generous salaries and pensions. Which is more than can be said for the hundreds of thousands of workers who\u2019ve lost their jobs as unemployment soars under Labour.<\/p>\n

Yet through all the sackings, one minister proved untouchable. And when I say he’s the cabinet\u2019s biggest loose cannon and ideological loon, you\u2019ll know who I mean.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s Ed Miliband. He\u2019s still clinging to his role as Energy Secretary despite being the worst possible man for the job.<\/p>\n

Last month I decided to tot up the ways Miliband is costing taxpayers billions. I expected to find three or four king-size blunders. I quickly reached 10, and had to stop before the list got out of hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the election, Miliband promised his green energy revolution would wipe \u00a3300 off our annual bills. Instead, households face paying an extra \u00a3900, while he slaps on green levies, pays wind farms not to produce electricity on breezy days and tears up the countryside to build panels and pylons.<\/p>\n

Britain already has the highest energy bills in the Western world, yet Miliband has made us the only country to ban new oil and gas exploration. His fantasy of hundreds of thousands of \u201cgreen jobs\u201d has even been rubbished by Tony Blair. Instead, he\u2019s destroying them.<\/p>\n

Ed Miliband should have been first out the door. So how did he, of all people, survive?<\/p>\n

By axing Rayner, Starmer stripped the Labour left of their champion. He couldn\u2019t deprive them of Miliband too, or they’d be up in arms.<\/p>\n

Miliband also shields Labour from the Green Party, whose radical new leader Zack Polanski looks set to enlarge the youth vote even more than he used to enlarge breasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a problem. Miliband is a highly divisive figure, as he tears up the countryside to meet his net zero illusions. He may play well with green zealots, but he’s driving the rest of the country mad by making us even poorer than we already are.<\/p>\n

Voters will be reminded of the damage he\u2019s unleashed every time their gas and electricity bill lands.<\/p>\n

Net zero is shaping up to be one of the defining issues of the next election, second only to immigration. If new home secretary Shabana Mahmood, who has a reputation for competence (rare in the Labour Party), gets a grip on the borders, voters will switch their focus to the economy, and Miliband\u2019s role in wrecking it.<\/p>\n

It looks like Starmer \u2013 and the rest of us \u2013 are stuck with Miliband all the way to the election. Not because he\u2019s doing a good job, but because the PM is too frit to sack him.<\/p>\n

His cowardice could backfire. Ed Miliband has destroyed Labour before. Now he’s free to do it all over again<\/a>. His unrealistic net zero charge will sink Starmer’s already wafer-thin chances of survival.<\/p>\n

Which would be one consolation for the rest of us. Unfortunately, Miliband will do an awful lot of damage first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were two exceptions. Rachel Reeves is still Chancellor, though she won\u2019t be popping the champagne. She’s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[17790,807,528,138790,32620,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-ed-miliband","10":"tag-keir-starmer","11":"tag-labour-party","12":"tag-labour-party-cabinet-reshuffle","13":"tag-net-zero-agenda","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156978642140372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}