Ed the Red

Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary is an inspired appointment.

It stops his net zero reign of terror, gives us a Foreign Secretary who prevented the UK intervening militarily in Syria because of dodgy allegations and he is one of the very few senior British politicians left who has been outspokenly critical of Israel.

The fact that Stephen Pollard and the Daily Telegraph are furious is reassuring.

It is of course a great shame that Mr Miliband opposed Brexit though. His Marxist father Ralph supported it.

Nice to see the Mandelson-Macsweeney-Starmer people being chucked out. A new broom sweeps clean.

But the British policy of urging Ukrainians to sacrifice themselves fighting Russia, our support for America in the Middle East and our helping the US Navy commit piracy are unlikely to change.

Once the British cabinet decided our foreign policy but now we it has to do what it's told by the US and the Five Eyes, an international deep state because it dares not be give up an alliance that only brings danger.

Unfortunately the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, will find money for an unnecessary increase in defence spending, an issue that led him to resign bringing down Sir Keir Starmer's ministry.