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Ed Miliband will be a liability as energy secretary

6 July 2024

4:30 PM

6 July 2024

4:30 PM

I know it has only just begun, but it is not too early to start wondering: what will it be that causes the Starmer government its first serious problem? A likely surge in arrivals of illegal migrants seems one possibility, given that some of those encamped in northern France appear to be well aware of British politics and have been reported to be waiting for the moment when Starmer fulfils his policy of ending the Rwanda scheme ‘on day one’.

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