LONDON — Confronted by potentially the gravest energy crisis since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced a choice over who to listen to: Donald Trump or Ed Miliband.
He picked Ed Miliband.
The war in the Middle East has sent the global price of oil and gas soaring. Starmer’s political opponents to the right — the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK — have demanded the government respond by incentivizing oil and gas production in the North Sea and dropping climate policies they say are driving up bills.
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And they have a noisy cheerleader in President Donald Trump.
