John Prescott has gone from ‘Two Jags’ to ‘No Jags’ as the former deputy prime minister revealed he has sold the last of his gas-guzzling cars.
Mr Prescott earned the nickname because of his attachment to the cars and in 2018 confessed to having bought ‘every kind’ of Jaguar apart from one.
But on the eve of his trip to the Cop26 summit, Mr Prescott wrote in The Times: “I’ve made my own small contribution to cutting carbon emissions. I’ve sold my Jaguar. I am now Zero Jags.”
The former environment, transport and the regions secretary added: “Carbon emissions must fall some 7.6% annually through 2030 to keep the 1.5C cap in play.
“It’s clear the nationally dtermined contributions presented to Glasgow so far won’t do that.”
Mr Prescott, who suffered a stroke in 2019, has also converted to low carbon fish and chips cooked with potatoes sourced with an hour of Hull’s Papa’s restaurant.
He said: “Selling a car or eating fish and chips with a lower carbon footprint alone won’t save the planet.
“But as the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, ‘Great acts are made up of small deeds’.”
It comes as Boris Johnson will give a press conference at 4.30pm today after dashing back to the COP26 climate summit.
The Prime Minister boarded a train from London to Glasgow this morning after he was slammed for taking a domestic flight back from the global gathering last week.
Mr Johnson will issue a desperate plea to negotiators to "pull out the stops" for real progress as the two-week summit closes this Friday or Saturday.
The UK government announced a target for all new UK HGVs to be zero-emissions by 2040 - 10 years after the date for cars and vans.
But Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband said there had already been a “devastating reality check” - after a draft COP agreement warned far more needs to be done to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C.
Mr Miliband also suggested the Prime Minister was visiting Glasgow to distract from a growing sleaze scandal in Westminster.
Mr Johnson is thought to have axed a planned Chequers away day for Cabinet ministers tomorrow - and last night, Tory vice chair Andrew Bowie quit his role amid reports he was unable to support the government publicly over sleaze.
