Andy Burnham is planning to defy Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband by giving the green light to drill the North Sea’s Rosebank oil field.
Whitehall sources revealed that the Prime Minister and Chancellor John Healey are plotting to override the opposition of Mr Miliband and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh by pumping Rosebank’s 500 million barrels of oil.
Mr Miliband has previously referred to proposals for the oil field as ‘climate vandalism’.
The decision is understood to have been reached during tense preparations for Wednesday’s Budget, which have highlighted the fragile state of the nation’s finances, the lack of growth in the economy and the
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