Portrait of the week: Fishing friction, Greta’s singalong and terror in Tokyo

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Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told delegates to the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow: ‘It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.’ He left the conference the next day. British companies would have to publish plans on reaching net zero by 2050. India said it would reach net zero by 2070. Greta Thunberg, aged 18, stood in Govan Festival Park leading a chorus of ‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’ to the tune of ‘Ye cannae shove yer grannie aff a bus’. ‘None of us will live for ever,’ the Queen said in a video message: ‘The leading role my husband played in encouraging people to protect our fragile planet lives on through the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William. I could not be more proud of them.’ She had been advised to rest from all but light duties for a fortnight; she would not attend the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 November, but it was her ‘firm intention’ to be at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph the following day.

Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, repeatedly said that she would not roll over. She was referring to a row with France over fishing rights, after a scallop boat was impounded at Le Havre. George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, said it had been released; but it hadn’t. Jean Castex, the French Prime Minister, said in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, that the EU must demonstrate in this dispute that there was ‘more damage to leaving the EU than in remaining there’.