UK government picks fight over EU alignment

While Westminster focused on the Budget today, a more consequential argument for the future of Britain’s energy market unfolded around it. Minutes before the budget, Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch clashed over Brexit just one day after Nigel Farage said Burnham has “no mandate” to reopen the Brexit question. With less than one month before the UK-EU summit, a renewed domestic fight over European alignment threatens to derail negotiations that will reshape Britain’s energy security.