Red Ed’s kamikaze net zero policies and the most expensive email in history

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Telegraph, Planet Normal, Current Affairs, News And Current Affairs

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Secrets, lies and spies are on the agenda for this week and your co-pilots are here to make sense of the madness.

Allison is horrified by the secrecy surrounding the Ministry of Defence data leak, which has been estimated at a potential cost of £7bn to the UK tax payer, without any oversight or accountability of where people will be settled around the Country.

Meanwhile Liam focuses on the news inflation has increased and the warning that the Labour tax increases are curtailing growth, which could lead to the dreaded term ‘stagflation’.

Stowing away this week is MD of REIDsteel, Simon Boyd, who lays out his case for Ed Miliband's net zero policies being ‘dangerous’.

Read Allison: ‘Starmer is sacrificing our troops on the altar of human rights law’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/15/starmer-sacrificing-british-troops-on-altar-of-human-rights/ |

Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |

Read Liam: ‘Reeves needs to take a leaf out of Gordon Brown’s book‘ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/13/reeves-needs-take-a-leaf-out-gordon-brown-book/ |

Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |

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0:55.1	You're saying the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is dangerous.
0:59.4	I would say it has, yes, absolutely dangerous.
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1:03.9	Your co-pilot is about to self-combust and end up in a little pile of ash on the floor.
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1:25.9	Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.
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