ANDREW PIERCE: Milibands bury the hatchet after leadership rift 

One of the most riveting feuds in modern political history appears to be at an end, I can exclusively reveal.

When Ed Miliband stood for the Labour leadership in 2010 against his brother David, the older sibling was irked to say the least.

And when Ed emerged victorious with a lead of just 1.3 per cent of the vote, David and his musician wife Louise were even more appalled by his act of political fratricide.

David, 56, not only declined to serve in his brother’s shadow cabinet, but shortly afterwards stood down as an MP and moved to New York, where — to this day — he runs mega-charity the International Rescue Committee on a handsome pay package of more than $1million a year.

Their mother Marion was reportedly heartbroken by their estrangement and relations got so bad that Ed was a no-show at David’s 50th birthday party.

But now it seems they have kissed and made up. During the local elections they were spotted in Camden, banging on doors in a campaign to get out the Labour vote, and were later seen sipping coffees together in a terrace café.

‘It came as a surprise to many voters to see not one but both Miliband brothers striding up their garden paths,’ says my Labour mole. ‘Time, as in all feuds, is a great healer.’

Tory MPs have relished turning the tables on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whose ‘Beergate’ claims have unravelled so spectacularly. Andrew Bridgen, the MP for North West Leicestershire, says: ‘It appears Sir Keir has placed himself in one of the more uncomfortable positions of the political Kama Sutra!’

The SNP member for New York 

It’s almost 25 years to the day since Dundee-born actor Brian Cox provided the voiceover for a Labour election broadcast for Tony Blair

It’s almost 25 years to the day since Dundee-born actor Brian Cox provided the voiceover for a Labour election broadcast for Tony Blair. 

But the man who stars as irascible media magnate Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession appears to be leaning towards the SNP these days.

‘I’m still for Scottish independence — at my age, I can’t screw about,’ says Cox, who is 75. 

It should be noted, however, that he doesn’t love the place enough to live there. Home is an apartment in New York.

The claim by farmer and MP Neil Parish that he stumbled across porn after searching for a Dominator combine harvester reminds me of the old country courting joke: ‘Farmer’s son looking for a girl who owns a tractor. Please send picture of tractor.’

Meanwhile, one-time Tory MP Gyles Brandreth has done his own research on how easy it is to unintentionally access porn. ‘I did something quite risky. I put the word ‘dominator’ into my iPhone,’ he told ITV. ‘No porn came up but it produced a music festival in the Netherlands, a DJ called Dominator and a Polish exhaust maker.’

Will Hunt be feeling the heat?

Jeremy Hunt may have been forced out as Foreign Secretary after Boris Johnson won the Tory leadership race in 2019, but he’s big enough not to join the pack baying for BoJo’s blood.

‘With my former Foreign Secretary hat on, I do believe right now would be the wrong time to change our Prime Minister,’ he wrote in his local newspaper the Farnham Herald last week. But has Hunt (pictured) changed his mind after taking in the Tories’ grim local election results in his Surrey constituency? 

Islington Council upset many residents when it introduced a series of low-traffic networks, which shut off residential streets to cars.

They will be even more upset to discover the scale of the bounty this new policy has delivered to the Labour-run council, whose local MPs are Jeremy Corbyn and Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry. In one week alone last summer, it raked in £100,000 in fines from drivers who strayed into just one of the closed off streets.

Sounds like yet another cash-raising enterprise dressed up as a ‘green’ initiative.