Labour MPs beg Andy Burnham not to make Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband the next Chancellor: Business leaders and even unions warn his high tax and green obsessions are toxic

Andy Burnham has been warned against making Ed Miliband his Chancellor should he become prime minister – or risk his premiership being ‘over before it’s begun’.

Labour MPs, business leaders and the unions joined forces to express their alarm over reports that Mr Miliband would succeed Rachel Reeves in a Burnham government on the grounds that his high-tax, Net Zero obsessions are toxic to voters.

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer spends the weekend holed up in his Chequers country estate with his wife Victoria, pondering how to respond to Mr Burnham’s emphatic win in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election and his intention to

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