🥀 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🥀 SCOOP: Lib Dems ditch 2045 net zero pledge (via Nicholas Earl) 🥀 SCOOP: Top Starmer project aide Matt Faulding quits 🌹 Read the full newsletter and subscribe (for free) here: politico.eu/newsletter/lon…

As a fan of Edward Hopper I couldn’t help but take this photo in Greenwich tonight.

NEW Keir Starmer WILL go to COP30 UN climate summit in Brazil, his spokesperson confirms "We're restoring the UK as a global leader on climate action and green growth. And you can expect to see the pm driving forward that agenda at the COP30 summit next month."

SCOOP: The Treasury challenged the oil and gas sector to come up with its latest lobbying push — where OEUK claimed £40bn of investment across 90 projects if the windfall tax was eased. POLITICOEurope

The Treasury is weighing up proposals to scrap the oil and gas windfall tax as soon as next year, as the government scrambles to revive the U.K.’s flagging economy. politico.eu/article/uk-tre…

⛈️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ⛈️ Finding new grooming probe chair expected to take *months* ⛈️ SCOOP from Nicholas Earl: Oil & gas tax could end soon ⛈️ FULL Labour cttee moves (via Noah Keate) ⛈️ Read the newsletter & subscribe (free) here: politico.eu/newsletter/lon…

. Nicholas Earl scoop on Tony Blair's latest green intervention politico.eu/article/uk-net…

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The controversial Drax plant confirmed a new multi-billion subsidy with the govt this morning The power station helps keep the U.K.'s lights on by burning tons of imported wood. Yet everyone in Westminster seems to hate it Nicholas Earl got his hi-viz on and took a look inside ⬇️

NEW: via London Playbook by Andrew McDonald.... Starmer risks a cold reception at COP30, with reports there will be no public money from UK for tropical forests fund that Brazil has made the centerpiece of the two-day leaders summit Background here: politico.eu/article/uk-tre…

In this piece, I talked about the obstacles Rolls-Royce has to navigate to deploy SMRs in the UK by the mid-2030s. According to two separate accounts, Great British Energy – Nuclear's real target date is now 2042. What's going on? Feels like something has gone wrong.

This looks great from PES '99 but Stamford Bridge was still part-building site in 1999. The big shiny West Stand wasn't complete until 2001 — it was still open air with massive floodlights.

A couple of top tales from the team this morning First, Nicholas Earl with ace tech colleagues on why AI has an energy problem (and energy has an AI problem) politico.eu/article/britai…

🔌🏠🐭NEW Westminster Insider! Inside No 10… Why Keir Starmer is said to “hate” working from it + all the secrets of the famous mad house ex Cab Sec Simon Case Dan Bloom Love Actually set designer Jim Clay Jack Brown Beatrice Timpson John McTernan open.spotify.com/episode/0BlZff…