War Chest

"I would happily donate to Ed Miliband's war chest if he were to come up with an intelligent non-wind-turbine environmental policy," says Sir Tim Rice, who is strikingly desperate to distance himself from UKIP. 

Labour has been in favour of the expansion of nuclear power, for which the largest lobbyist in the country is Unite, since the days when David Cameron was calling it "a last resort", and indeed since long before that.

I was also present when Ed Miliband, who had been nominated for Leader by the NUM, assured a hundred thousand people and the television cameras that a government headed by him would return to the exploitation of this country's vast reserves of coal.