The Daily Mail editorial criticises Prime Minister Andy Burnham for reportedly delaying approval of drilling at the North Sea's Jackdaw gas field until after next month's Holborn and St Pancras by-election, accusing him of bowing to pressure from the Green Party for electoral reasons. The paper argues this decision, alongside recent sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, shows the government prioritising political expediency and appeasing environmental and pro-Gaza campaigners over job creation and energy security, questioning whether Burnham or Green leader Zack Polanski is really setting policy.

The piece also touches on two other issues: relief that an assisted dying bill was rejected by Parliament, despite the narrow margin and what the paper calls its inadequate protections for vulnerable groups, and the case of Rasheed Rahman, a Sudanese asylum seeker who fatally stabbed a grandfather two days after being bailed for an earlier violent incident, which the paper cites as an example of failures in handling migrant crime. The editorial closes by demanding to know what Burnham intends to do about the wider migration crisis.