Ed Miliband’s uncontrolled fanaticism is now an economic and political liability

War of words

KEIR Starmer should worry about the increasingly fractious relationship between him, his Government and incoming President Donald Trump.

Trump is dead right of course about the insanity of Ed Miliband’s self- harming dash to abandon North Sea oil and gas — and the savage windfall tax rises destroying investment there.

Far cheaper energy, especially from fracking, is fuelling America’s economic surge just as Miliband’s deranged Net Zero obsession leads us towards ruin.

But the fact Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk are so publicly and vitriolically attacking the Government on this and other issues should disturb the PM.

Some Musk barbs are rash and ill-informed. Some are justified.

But in 16 days Trump, with Musk at his side, will be reinstalled as leader of the free world. America is our No1 ally. We are meant to have a “special relationship”.

We are meant to be teeing up the lucrative trade deal spoken of for so long.

All of it seems in grave jeopardy if the White House is campaigning to unseat a Government with four years left to run.

It doesn’t help for pipsqueak Labour ministers like Andrew Gwynne to retaliate by telling the world’s richest man — with 210million Twitter followers — to butt out of UK politics.

Sir Keir needs to repair this rift fast.

But he could usefully listen to Trump, especially on Miliband — the Energy Secretary who used to call Extinction Rebellion’s lawless stunts “exciting”.

His uncontrolled fanaticism is now an economic and political liability.

The new President is right to call out the historic mistake of our Prime Minister handing such power to such a fool.

Stop the bloat

LABOUR pledged to scrutinise every pound spent, to get value for taxpayers.

Let them start at the Home Office.

Mandarins there held a swanky “stop the boats” dinner for themselves and Italian counterparts costing a staggering £10,000: roughly £220 a head.

Two Brits on the average full-time wage worked an entire year to pay the bill for that single jolly via their income tax.

When Labour promised to end the squandering of public funds, was it just a stick to batter the Tories with?

If not, prove it — by ending all this self-indulgent excess.

Target hit

THERE’S potentially another big winner from last night’s darts showdown.

That’s the campaign to get blokes better ­prostate cancer advice from their GP.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says NHS guidance could now be changed to make blood-testing for it more routine.

For Prostate Cancer UK, and its supporter Paddy Power, that really would be a champagne finish.