Russell Hargrave
@Hargraver
UK energy & climate editor @ Politico - [email protected]. Once wrote a book about immigration policy ⬇️ 🏴
REVEALED: UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is pinning the success of his multi-billion-pound Warm Homes Plan on an overhaul aimed at incentivizing people to use clean tech, government emails seen by POLITICO show. politico.eu/article/labour…
Excited to announce that I start today as a researcher on @POLITICOEurope London Playbook, where I’ll be helping a team of authors put together the newsletter. Get in touch on mlarsen [at] politico.co.uk for a coffee or if you’ve got an interesting story 🗒️
Sizewell C gets it FID (at last) Story by @nearlblog pro.politico.eu/news/202274
Come join our sister team in Brussels: jobs.mpleo.net/en/politico/00…
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee greenlight Miliband's choice for CCC chair Story by @abby_wallace3 pro.politico.eu/news/202244
The Lib Dems hope to hold onto their 72 seats with a pro-climate message to win over disaffected progressives and liberal Tory voters. More here for @POLITICOEurope politico.eu/article/uk-lib…
"You're attempting to break our charities," Tory DCMS Committee chair Caroline Dinenage tells PM at the Liaison Committee, citing NICs rise Now *that* is a newsline for my old sector reporter colleagues
The Liberal Democrats — the third-biggest party in the UK parliament — reckon they have found a winning political formula as they seek to hoover up Tory voters. It involves talking about the climate. A lot. politico.eu/article/uk-lib…
Story by @nearlblog The UK's third biggest party has a strategy. Go green, sweep away Kemi Badenoch politico.eu/article/uk-lib…
Revealed: I understand that the board of BP is meeting this evening to finalise the appointment of a successor to chairman Helge Lund, more than three months after announcing his exit amid pressure from activist investor Elliott; an announcement may come tonight or tomorrow.
Pride of place on my desk. Not just for the quality of investigating Epstein but for its insights into journalism x.com/jkbjournalist/…
If you’re having trouble getting my book, I’m told the publisher is printing more copies.
Glad this antisemitic conspiracy was challenged on the radio.
‘Keir Starmer has suspended MPs on the behest of Israel.’ ‘Show me the evidence then?’ @TomSwarbrick1 challenges Femi Nylander's claims of Israeli influence in British politics following Diane Abbott's suspension from the Labour party.
Frankly disappointed it has taken this long to find a Pen Farthing angle x.com/domdyer70/stat…
So Ben Wallace happily went along with a super injunction that cost tax payers billions to cover a civil service leak, but attacked me & Pen Farthing for mounting a privately funded rescue operation of people & animals from Afghanistan. What a hypocrite #AfghanDataBreach…
[eyeballs emoji] Only one council vote etc. But trends like this come May would be Labour disaster territory h/t @mimosacymru x.com/ElectionMapsUK…
Pontypridd Town (Rhondda Cynon Taf) Council By-Election Result: 🌼 PLC: 51.6% (-2.2) ➡️ RFM: 24.2% (New) 🌹 LAB: 19.4% (-16.8) 🌳 CON: 2.6% (-7.3) 🌍 GRN: 2.2% (New) Plaid Cyrmu HOLD. Changes w/ 2022.
What is Labour packaging up for its Warm Homes Plan? Cracking reporting by @abby_wallace3 politico.eu/article/labour…
Big recommend for this, cracking story politico.eu/article/britai…
