Peter Lazenby
This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
RISHI SUNAK is facing mounting criticism over his decision not to attend the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next month as Boris Johnson declared he would attend.
Mr Johnson announced his intention after the new PM said that he had “other pressing domestic commitments” — despite a UN warning that global warming is reaching “irreversible” levels.
Green MP Caroline Lucas said that although she suspected Mr Johnson’s announcement involved “a great deal of self-promotion,” it was “probably about the first decision that he has made that I might support.”
Ms Lucas said: “If we’re really saying that in the sixth richest country in the world that our Prime Minister can’t be bothered to get there because he’s busy, what about all of those prime ministers in countries that are absolutely on the front edge of the climate emergency right now?”
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she will attend the summit. The SNP has joined criticism of the PM’s no-show at COP27, accusing him on Sunday of showing a “complete failure of leadership” and “rolling back” on the government’s climate pledges.
