Climate change dogged PMQs today.
‘We are at the eleventh hour to save the planet,’ announced Jeremy Corbyn grimly. The experts who warn of disaster have clearly caught the Labour leader’s ear.
‘Coastal flooding and crop failures could threaten political chaos,’ said Noel Brown, director of the UN Environment Programme. He added that a polar thaw could lift sea-levels by three feet within ten years.
Mind you, he was speaking in 1989 so today’s crisis may not be as serious as some like to claim. Corbyn moaned about the upcoming climate change conference in Glasgow which is suddenly leaderless. Ex-minister, Claire Perry, has stepped aside from her role as conference president. Recently she also stepped aside from her role as Claire Perry and assumed the job of being Claire O’Neill instead.
In emulation of her shifting loyalties, the Labour leader stood up for the former star of the Tory party. He quoted Perry/O’Neill with enthusiasm.
‘There has been a huge lack of leadership and engagement from this government,’ she said.
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