Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to unveil the crucial three-year settlements for departments in just over a week, amid mounting pressure on the public finances.
In a high-profile intervention last month, Mr Blair savaged the Government's obsession with Net Zero, saying voters were being asked to make 'financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle'.
Justine Thornton, a High Court judge who is married to the Energy Secretary, wrote to Camden Council in relation to the five-storey building earmarked for land near their north London house.
Dame Mary, 80, whose husband is Tory peer and novelist Lord Archer , was allegedly called to the department yesterday where she was informed she was being fired.
Ed Miliband is ramping up his Net Zero zealotry, despite the blackout chaos that the failure of wind and solar brought to Spain and Portugal this week.
QUENTIN LETTS: Energy Secretary Mr Miliband came prancing into the Commons dressage ring. He was on the tips of his hooves, gnashers bared, swishing his tail.