ALEX BRUMMER: I got to know ‘Red Ed’ and in private, he’s not the goofy nerd you’d expect. It won’t make me popular, but I believe he could make a good Chancellor

The front page of yesterday’s Daily Mail carried the headline: ‘Don’t put the economy at mercy of “Red Ed”’, a reference to Ed Miliband, the messianic Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

The accompanying story outlined the charge sheet that makes him such an unsuitable candidate to be Andy Burnham’s Chancellor.

The doctrinaire obsession with Net Zero even if it means destroying jobs and pushing up energy bills.

His track record as a tax-and-spend merchant in the mould of so many Labour Chancellors of the past, with all the horrifying consequences that would have for the long-term health of the

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