Wasting no time is windmill tilter Ed Miliband. The high-powered boss of a renewable energy company grumbled he and rival chiefs were given only three and a half minutes each to pitch to Keir Starmer’s Energy Secretary, who has been recycled from the Gordon Brown era. That’s barely long enough to boil an egg, never mind plug in to Green Ed’s grid. Another muttered the speed-dating could end in divorce between eco-electricity generators and a Labour former leader reborn as an environmental evangelist.
Trying to grow a beard is Darren Jones, who makes Tony look like a Corbynista when it comes to high Blairism. The Treasury chief secretary’s downy chin was mocked by Andrew Mitchell, the Tory shadow foreign secretary, reminding Jones how Thatcher banned beards in her cabinets. Starmer is more liberal. Durham Coalfield lad turned Business Secretary Johnny Reynolds sports a well-manicured beard. One junior minister suggested unkindly that the hair had slid down Reynolds’ face from a thinning head.
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