As Cop27 opens, the UK government is still in disarray over the climate crisis | Lucy Sherriff

After Johnson's weak energy plan and Truss's scepticism to net zero, we have Rishi Sunak who didn't even want to attend"Unless we take urgent action, we will get 3C hotter," Boris Johnson told the UN climate talks in 2020. "As a country ? we must now act." The former prime minister's words were a rallying cry to galvanise the government into taking action on global heating.Johnson's administration had been under heavy fire for its lacklustre approach to the climate crisis. But fast forward a year to Cop26, and not much had changed. Johnson's appearance was criticised as much as his policies; he was described as "a clown" after comparing the climate emergency to James Bond wrestling with a ticking bomb. His comments were in keeping with the travelling circus act that he has been performing ever since he first entered politics - even the future of the world was a joke. Continue reading...