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Keir Starmer, the favourite in the Labour leadership contest.
Keir Starmer, the favourite in the Labour leadership contest. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Afternoon summary

  • Claire O’Neill, who was sacked last week as head of the COP 26 conference, has said that voters should not trust Johnson to keep his promises. (See 9.11am.)
  • The Foreign Office has urged Britons in China to leave if they can. My colleague Damien Gayle has more on this on his coronavirus outbreak live blog.

That’s all from me for today.

Thanks for the comments.

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The Liberal Democrats have put out this about the COP 26 conference.

George Grylls has written a very good piece for the New Statesman on the implications of the proposals for Labour party reform announced by Sir Keir Starmer today. (See 12.09pm.) Here’s an extract.

Of the eight policies, three seek to undermine the influence of Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) — on which the party’s left currently has a majority. Firstly, Starmer has proposed ending the ability of the NEC to impose its preferred parliamentary candidates on CLPs; secondly, he wants to force the NEC to publish details of its decisions on the Labour Party website; and thirdly, Starmer will appoint independent bodies to investigate complaints rather than allowing an NEC committee to decide ...

The symbolism of these announcements matters almost as much as the substance. Most MPs sympathetic to Starmer believe that he could shape the NEC in his own image if he so wished. They have calculated that the Corbynite wing of the party currently has a majority on the NEC of around six. If elected, Starmer would be able to replace the three positions allocated to shadow cabinet members with his own three appointments. At a stroke, the majority for the party’s left would be wiped out ...

The accuracy of these calculations is up for debate. But, if we do believe the maths, and Starmer does have a good chance of refashioning the NEC, then why has he risked antagonising the party’s left by announcing structural changes during the leadership contest? Well, it is a statement of intent. Starmer is telling parliamentarians – along with the few Labour members who pay attention to Kremlinology – that he is his own man.

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From the BBC’s Adam Fleming:

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Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has written to Boris Johnson about the COP26 climate change summit being held in Glasgow in November. She proposes that the Scottish government’s environment secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, should attend UK cabinet meetings dealing with the conference.

And, to counter claims that the Scottish government is being obstructive (see 10.43am), she says “constructive discussions” are under way about freeing up an extra building that the UK government wants to use for the event.

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The Guardian is holding a Labour leadership hustings live event on Tuesday 25 in Manchester. Our chair, Anushka Asthana, will put questions to the candidates Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Emily Thornberry. You can book tickets here.

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In her Today interview this morning Claire O’Neill, who was sacked as president of the COP 26 climate change conference, complained, among other things, that Boris Johnson was ignoring her advice. See 10.25am. But perhaps her influence over him is greater than she realises. One of the lines in his speech this morning at the COP 26 launch seemed to be lifted straight out of her resignation letter.

In her letter (see 10.25am) she said:

The last time we saw [carbon emission] numbers like this was 3 million years ago when sea levels were 20 metres higher than now and beech trees grew in Antarctica.

And in his speech this morning (full text here) Johnson said:

CO2 levels today are at a level not seen since 3 million years ago when there were trees on Antarctica.

The speech is not one of Johnson’s finest, but it is probably worth reading just for the story Johnson tells about how a Victorian inventor, Walter Bersey, developed a fleet of battery-powered taxi cabs that operated on the streets of London in the 1890s.

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Boris Johnson welcoming Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah to Downing Street today.
Boris Johnson welcoming Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah to Downing Street today. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

In the Commons Chloe Smith, the Cabinet Office minister, says that David Frost, who was due to hold the Brexit briefing yesterday that was boycotted by journalists, is a special adviser, and hence a political appointee, and not a regular civil servant.

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Sir Keir Starmer has now published full details of his plans for internal Labour party reform summarised earlier. (See 12.09pm.)

Damian Green, the Tory former first secretary of state, says what we seem to be seeing is a “mass outbreak of snowflakery”.

(Green was forced to resign as a result of events triggered by press coverage about his behaviour.)

The SNP’s Pete Wishart says Smith sounded like “comical Ali” in her remarks. What will happen next? Talk of fake news, and banning broadcasters? But those things are happening already, Wishart says.

Smith says Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader, routinely used to exclude journalists from his briefings.

Sir Peter Bottomley, the Conservative MP and father of the house, says nothing this government has done compares with what Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s press secretary, did. He tried to get journalists sacked, Bottomley says. But he says he thinks there is a problem. No 10 should speak to senior journalists and sort it out.

Smith is responding to Brabin.

She says successive governments have held selective briefings.

She says Labour would like to licence the press. And a BBC journalist had to have protection when covering the Labour conference, she says.

She says the government supports a free press.

Tracy Brabin is responding now.

She says the journalists were excluded yesterday from a briefing by David Frost, the PM’s EU adviser.

She asks who decided who could attend.

And she asks if the decision to exclude some journalists was consistent with the civil service code and the code for special advisers.

She says the government’s behaviour damages the principle of a free press.

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Urgent question on No 10's selective briefing policy

In the Commons Tracy Brabin, the shadow culture minister, is now asking an urgent question about No 10’s decision to ban certain journalists yesterday from a government briefing.

Chloe Smith, the Cabinet Office minister, is responding. She says the government is committed to media freedom and to being open to the lobby. Yesterday was a good example of this, she says.

She says that yesterday the PM took questions after his speech. And after that the PM’s official spokesman held a briefing open to all, she says.

She says that, in addition to normal lobby briefings, the government also sometimes holds “additional, technical, specialist briefings”. One of these was scheduled yesterday.

And Caroline Lucas, the Green MP, says Boris Johnson’s own words this morning at the COP 26 event show that he does not properly understand the climate crisis.

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Jonathan Bartley, the Green party co-leader, has said the government’s handling of COP 26 is turning into a farce. In a statement after this morning’s launch, Bartley said:

Boris Johnson’s speech on the climate rings hollow once again. We need to hear less bluster and see more concrete action to tackle the biggest emergency this and future generations face.

COP 26 - which has been described many as pivotal - is turning into a farce. Following [Claire] O’Neill’s sacking and her scathing attacks on the organisation of this event it is vital that her successor is a qualified expert in both diplomacy and climate change, to begin to restore confidence in the process.

Bringing forward the banning of petrol and diesel cars to 2035 is nowhere near enough if we want to ‘lead the way’ in tackling climate chaos. I urge the government to put forward a credible plan to reach net-zero by 2030.

COP 26 should be something which the entire country feels part of. At the moment it looks more like the latest addition to Johnson’s long list of failures.

Jonathan Bartley.
Jonathan Bartley. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

At the Downing Street lobby briefing this morning No 10 did not rule out derogating – effectively partially suspending – the European convention on human rights in order to apply the new sentencing arrangements for terrorist offenders announced after the Streatham attack. As the Press Association reports, asked if the government would derogate from the ECHR, the PM’s spokesman said:

We are going to ensure that we will bring forward the necessary legislation to protect the public because that’s the right thing to do.

Asked if the government remained committed to upholding the ECHR the spokesman said: “We are signatories to the ECHR.”

Last month Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, gave a far stronger commitment to the ECHR when he was asked about it in the Commons. He said the UK would never withdraw from it in any circumstances. But there has been speculation that Cox could be sacked in the reshuffle, which is now expected next week.

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Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader and a former secretary of state for energy and climate change, has dismissed Boris Johnson’s handling of the COP 26 climate change conference as amateurish.

At the lobby briefing this morning Downing Street was evasive when asked if Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, would be attending the COP 26 climate change conference. This is from HuffPost’s Paul Waugh.

That has prompted this response from Sturgeon.

These are from Simon Fraser, a former head of the Foreign Office, on the government statement issued yesterday about its plans for the UK-EU trade talks.

According to today’s Financial Times splash (paywall), Sajid Javid, the chancellor, is facing a black hole in his accounts. Chris Giles, the FT’s economics editor, says:

Britain’s public finances face a black hole in three years if the economy follows the path forecast by the Bank of England, breaking chancellor Sajid Javid’s new rules to guarantee a current budget surplus.

Financial Times calculations suggest that the lower rates of sustainable economic growth forecast by the BoE would leave the chancellor with a £12bn deficit by 2022-23, instead of the £5bn surplus laid out in the Conservative election manifesto.

The projections, based on modelling by the Office for Budget Responsibility, would see Mr Javid facing the difficult task of having to consider tax rises and more austerity before his first budget on 11 March to ensure the fiscal watchdog gives his new budgetary rules a pass mark.

Responding to the report, Sir Ed Davey, the acting Lib Dem leader, said:

This grim forecast for the nation’s coffers is a warning that his plan to hollow out our vital trading relationships with Europe is nothing short of reckless.

Johnson’s Brexit is taking Britain’s public finances to the brink. He must halt his charge to a no deal or hard Brexit and guarantee instead the closest trading relationship possible with the EU. Otherwise there’ll be no money in the future for the NHS, schools and police.

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These are from my colleague Kate Proctor on Boris Johnson not taking questions at the COP 26 event this morning. (See 11.26am.)

Starmer vows to stop Labour HQ imposing candidates on CLPs in eight-point plan for reform

Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary and favourite in the Labour leadership contest, has just released an eight-point plan for internal Labour party reform. He says he wants to make the party more “open, respectful, creative and engaging”.

Although internal party reform is a relatively niche topic, it is important, particularly in the context of an opposition party leadership election. Candidates have been announcing policy, even though they are unlikely to have any say over government policy for the next four years at least. But whoever wins the leadership election will, potentially, be able to do quite a lot to change Labour. (I say potentially because power is dispersed in Labour, and until the new leader gets control of the national executive committee and party conference, his or her room for manoeuvre may be limited.)

Two of Starmer’s proposals are particularly significant.

  • Starmer says Labour HQ should give up imposing candidates on local parties. This is something that does not happen routinely, but does happen close to an election when vacancies occur. In the past, under all leaders, this system has allowed the leadership to effectively gift safe seats to favoured candidates. Starmer says he will stop this. In his press release, he says:

Local party members should select their candidates for every election. The NEC should not impose candidates on local parties. More widely, we must improve our selection process. The current system is impenetrable, with too much reliance on who people know rather than what they can do. It costs too much and takes too much time, effectively ruling out potentially excellent candidates.

  • He says he would set up an independent body to deal with complaints about members. The national constitutional committee (NCC), the body that currently deals with serious complaints, would be scrapped. His press release says:

Our current system does not work to this principle and it should be replaced by an independent panel with experts on racism, sexual harassment and poor personal conduct cases. All members and communities must have confidence in the rigour and independence of our disciplinary procedures. We should extend auto-exclusion to include expressions of clear-cut racism, including anti-semitism.

The six other proposals are:

  • Making candidates more representative. Starmer says he would like Labour to be able to have all-BAME shortlists, but he says parliament would have to legislate for this first.
  • Providing better access for disabled members.
  • Promoting innovative campaigning.
  • Making policy-making more democratic.
  • Making Labour decision-making more transparent.
  • Strengthening links between Labour and the trade unions.
Keir Starmer.
Keir Starmer. Photograph: Mark Hawkins/Barcroft Media

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Dominic Cummings, the PM’s chief adviser, was photographed carrying a book called Chinese Spies this morning as he arrived at Downing Street. It’s by the journalist Roger Faligot, and it says China has the largest intelligence service in the world, although the Times’ reviewer (paywall) says Faligot’s account left him wondering “if there is such a thing as an over-devious secret service. In their constant quest to discover the imagined layers of meaning underpinning the actions of their enemies, the Chinese spooks may just be tying themselves in knots, consumed by paranoia.”

Perhaps Cummings is looking for tips. At the weekend the Sunday Times (paywall) claimed that he had recruited his own network of “spies” working in Westminster restaurants who will tip him off if they see special advisers having unauthorised meetings with journalists.

Dominic Cummings arriving at No 10.
Dominic Cummings arriving at No 10. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Cummings’ book, Chinese Spies.
Cummings’ book, Chinese Spies. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

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Johnson refuses to take questions at COP 26 launch

The launch of COP 26 at London’s Science Museum this morning was a gathering of academics, business leaders, civil society groups and a few politicians, including the environment secretary, Theresa Villiers, and Zac Goldsmith, an environment minister. Mark Carney, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, who will be a UN climate envoy this year, was also there, along with the Commonwealth secretary general, Lady Scotland, the climate economist Lord Stern, the actor and activist Lily Cole, and the prime minister’s father and long-time environmentalist Stanley Johnson.

The Italian prime minister made a brief speech, as Italy is the joint host of COP 26 with the UK and will be holding a pre-COP in Milan and a further meeting in the autumn to prepare the ground for a potential deal. Missing, however, was the UN’s top climate official, Patricia Espinosa.

Boris Johnson did not take questions, there was no press conference, and under the original plan for the launch, media were to be excluded, until a last-minute reversal late on Monday allowed some media to attend.

Johnson spent most of his speech on a discussion of the UK’s pioneering inventor of electric taxis, who came up with a prototype late in the 19th century which was briefly adopted in the capital before being replaced by the internal combustion engine.

While this gave plenty of opportunity to showcase the new commitment to bring forward the phasing out of diesel and petrol vehicles, and for jokes at the expense of Transport for London, there was little clue as to how the UK’s diplomatic effort to forge a global consensus on tougher carbon targets will be achieved.

Central to that effort will be the appointment of a replacement to Claire O’Neill, whose blistering performance on the Today programme (see 10.25am) was the chatter of the assembled climate great and good as they awaited the prime minister’s appearance. A decision on her replacement is understood to depend on a wider government reshuffle, which is widely expected in the next fortnight.

The Cabinet Office COP 26 team are moving ahead with meetings and strategy discussions, but there is a sense that the government’s real push has not yet started.

Boris Johnson (left) and British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough at the COP 26 launch at the Science Museum in London.
Boris Johnson (left) and British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough at the COP 26 launch at the Science Museum in London. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

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There are two urgent questions in the Commons later.

Standing up for Britain more important than getting trade deal with EU, says Gove

In an interview shortly after the general election Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister who has been in charge of no-deal planning, said he was confident that the UK would negotiate a trade deal with the EU before the end of 2020.

Now he does not seem sure. In an interview with Sky’s Kay Burley this morning, he said the government would like to get a trade deal with the EU, but that it was not essential. He said:

When we talk about needing – everything is a matter of preference. It is better to have a good trading relationship with the United States, better to have the best trading relationship with the EU, but most of all it’s right to stand up for Britain, and not to accept terms from other countries if those terms aren’t right for us.

Yesterday Rishi Sunak, the chief secretary to the Treasury, also said the UK did not have to have a trade deal with the EU.

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Julian Braithwaite, the UK’s ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, has been addressing a WTO meeting for the first time since the UK left the EU on Friday.

At the weekend it was reported in the Sunday Times that Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, had ordered British diplomats to “sit separately” from their former EU colleagues at international meetings following the UK’s departure from the union on Friday. It was an odd story, not least because at international meetings delegations are normally seated according to precedence, or alphabetical order, not personal preference. At the WTO this morning Braithwaite was sitting next to his US counterpart.

UPDATE: I’ve amended the first paragraph of this post. Originally it said that Braithwaite would be addressing the WTO meeting as the representative of an independent country for the first time since the WTO was set up in the 1990s. That was based on what the Department for International Trade was saying in its tweet. (See above.) But that was misleading. The UK has always been a member of the WTO. But in the past it was represented by the European commission. DIT says what is different now is that the UK is “able to speak independently”.

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In her Today interview Claire O’Neill, who was sacked last week as president of the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow later this year, claimed the Scottish government was being obstructive. She said:

One of the things you would hope to have organised by now is an absolute firm location. And the prime minister himself chose Glasgow, which is a wonderful site, and the city council have been absolutely amazing. And of course I have not been party to the numbers and the negotiations, quite rightly.

But I am told by those involved that the original analysis was hundreds of millions of pounds off track, that the Scottish government has absolutely behaved disgracefully, and has been contracting buildings, for example, from the COP site that should be absolutely made available to the conference, and that there is a complete standoff.

In response, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, rejected the suggestion that her government was trying to sabotage the conference. She said:

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At the COP 26 launch this morning Boris Johnson swerved questions on the sacking of Claire O’Neill and the candidates for her replacement as he moved to reassure climate campaigners and governments that the UK is fully committed to making the summit a success. He said:

Unless we take urgent action we will get three degrees hotter. The bushfires, the melting ice caps, the acidification of the oceans are evidence. Climate change is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations.

Sir David Attenborough said it was time to change the planet’s direction on the climate crisis. He said:

We all know the potential catastrophe. Five years ago the world came together in Paris. That was a step forward. But though we now all agree we have to do something about it, the time to do that is at COP 26. The longer we go on takling about it without action, the worse it is going to get. Unless we do something, it becomes insoluble. That’s why Glasgow is extremely important.

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What former Tory minister Claire O'Neill says about Boris Johnson

In her letter to Boris Johnson written after she was sacked as president of the COP 26 climate change conference (which has been obtained by the Financial Times), and in her Today interview, Claire O’Neill said that it was not just Johnson and the UK government, but the world generally, that was failing to respond fast enough to the climate crisis. In her letter she said:

C02 levels are over 415ppm and climbing. The last time we saw numbers like this was 3 million years ago when sea levels were 20 metres higher than now and beech trees grew in Antarctica. The world’s attempts to get to grips with this epic tragedy of the commons are failing. Almost 50% of our collective emissions have been pumped out since the first meeting of global leaders on climate at the Rio Earth summit in 1992 and emissions are 4% higher than in 2015 when the Paris agreement was signed at COP 21. Global scientists are clear that unless we break this trend now and start sustained reduction in global emissions with a clear net zero landing zone by 2050 or shortly afterwards, we will be dealing with unprecedented climate conditions and vast economic and human consequences within decades, not centuries.

But she used the letter and the interview to make a series of specific complaints about the PM. Here is a summary.

  • O’Neill said Johnson has failed to show leadership over COP 26. In her letter she said:

When you asked me to be your COP president (and to combine it with remaining in your cabinet as a minister, an offer I declined) you promised to “lead from the front” and asked me what was needed “money, people, just tell us!” Sadly, these promises and offers are not close to being met.

And in her interview she said there had been “a huge lack of leadership and engagement” on this issue.

  • She said Johnson had rejected her suggestion that Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, should be given a role in organising COP 26.
  • She said Johnson was someone who could not be trusted to keep his promises. (See 9.11am.)
  • She said the decision to sack her as president of COP 26 was unfair. In her letter she said:

I was given three separate explanations for the decision, none of which could be clearly articulated or supported with evidence, apart from needing someone more senior. You did, of course, know my seniority and experience when you offered me the job.

  • She claimed that, following her sacking, No 10 was responsible for false and negative briefings against her. In her letter she said:

It was very disheartening in this context to learn that No 10 is rumoured to be behind the media briefings put out to support your decision, which variously contained awful, false and distorted defamatory allegations.

Claire O’Neill.
Claire O’Neill. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images

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Johnson says carbon emissions 'swaddling planet like tea cosy'

Boris Johnson and Sir David Attenborough met primary schoolchildren at the Science Museum in London before speaking to experts, campaigners and politicians at an event to launch the COP 26 climate change conference being hosted by the UK later this year. According to the Press Association, Johnson told the children:

We are trying to get people focusing on what this country is doing to tackle climate change and how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which as I understand it is swaddling the planet like a tea cosy.

We want to get everybody to agree to use new technology, such as electric batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, all that kind of thing, so they stop producing so much greenhouse gases.

Johnson said the UK wanted to get to net zero emissions, and that “we think we’ve got to do it”, pointing to Britain’s role as a leader in the industrial revolution.

Boris Johnson sitting with Sir David Attenborough during the event to launch the UK-hosted COP 26 UN climate change conference.
Boris Johnson sitting with Sir David Attenborough during the event to launch the UK-hosted COP 26 UN climate change conference. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images

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Sir Keir Starmer, the favourite in the Labour leadership contest, has written to Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, urging him to investigate what happened yesterday when a number of journalists were banned from a No 10 briefing. Starmer says this should never happen again. He says:

Banning sections of the media from attending important briefings about important matters of government is damaging to democracy.

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In an interview with Sky News this morning Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, rejected Claire O’Neill’s claims that the government has shown a lack of leadership on the issue of climate breakdown. Gove, a former environment minister, said:

The cabinet has discussed climate change. The very first item on the agenda in the new year when the cabinet met was the conference in Glasgow in November.

We have been working hard in order to ensure we do three things – that Britain sets an example: the prime minister is explaining today alongside David Attenborough some of steps we are taking like, for example, banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035.

The second thing is making sure countries come together and live up to their promises to reduce carbon emissions, and the third thing is extending the range of things that we do to deal with this so it is not just about transport and energy.

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Voters should not trust PM to keep promises, says former Tory minister sacked from COP 26 role

Good morning. Last week Claire O’Neill, the former environment minister elected to parliament as Claire Perry but who stood down at the general election, was sacked from her role as head of the COP 26 climate change conference. To be held in Glasgow in November the conference is supposed to agree new greenhouse gas emission targets. Her surprise sacking was accompanied by some negative briefing from the government, with one source claiming she had “seriously underperformed” and that her behaviour was “erratic”.

O’Neill, however, is not going quietly. With Boris Johnson due to attend the formal launch of the conference in London this morning, the Financial Times has mysteriously managed to get hold of her resignation letter, in which she is scathing about Johnson’s leadership. And she was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, scattering criticism with ever more abandon. It was quite a performance. While paying lip service to the government’s worthy ambitions, and the importance of its diesel and petrol vehicles announcement today, and doing her best to sound reasonable, not bitter, she hammered Johnson’s record on COP 26.

As Rowena Mason and Fiona Harvey report in their story, O’Neill said Johnson had shown a “huge lack of leadership and engagement” over COP 26, and she claimed that he admitted he did not understand the issue.

She also said that Johnson could not be trusted to keep his promises. She told the programme:

My advice to anybody to whom Boris is making promises – whether it is voters, world leaders, ministers, employees or indeed, to family members – is to get it in writing, get a lawyer to look at it and make sure the money is in the bank.

I will post more on her criticisms soon.

Here is the agenda for the day.

9am: Boris Johnson and Sir David Attenborough speak at the official launch of the COP 26 global climate change conference which is taking place in Glasgow in November.

11.30am: Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, takes questions in the Commons.

1pm: Lord Sumption, the former supreme court justice, and Gina Miller, the anti-Brexit campaigner, speak at an Institute for Government event on the constitution.

As usual, I will be covering breaking political news as it happens, as well as bringing you the best reaction, comment and analysis from the web. I plan to post a summary when I wrap up.

You can read all the latest Guardian politics articles here. Here is the Politico Europe roundup of this morning’s political news. And here is the PoliticsHome list of today’s top 10 must-reads.

If you want to follow me or contact me on Twitter, I’m on @AndrewSparrow.

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