Andy Burnham under mounting pressure as 100 Labour MPs ‘want UK to start drilling for Rosebank oil’

There are already reports of a split with Chancellor John Healey and Business Secretary Jonthan Reynolds keen for drilling to start against opposition from Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh. The remarks to Chopper’s Political Podcast lay bare the pressure the Prime Minister is under from his own backbenchers to deliver the “pragmatic” approach towards drilling in the North Sea which he promised US President Donald Trump in September. The Labour Government is bound by a 2024 manifesto commitment not to allow new oil and gas fields to be drilled in the North Sea. Ministers plan to…