Rory Stewart suggests that Andy Burnham appointed Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary to effectively neutralize his influence over energy and climate change policies while keeping him in the government.

“I'd want to be able to do some things that Ed Milliban would oppose in terms of British energy. I'd want to build more data centers. In my case, I'd probably want to start drilling again in the North Sea and I might want to show a bit flexibility about some of his Richard targets, but you don't want”