A “game-changing” emergency briefing on climate change which all Tory leadership candidates reportedly failed to attend has been made available for all to watch.
The briefing, led by the UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, outlines the catastrophic impacts of a warmer planet, from ice loss to biodiversity declines.
It was shown to MPs after activist Angus Rose conducted a 37-day hunger strike outside parliament to demand a public address to MPs on the climate crisis.
In 2020 the same briefing was shown to Boris Johnson, and reportedly had a “huge impact” on the prime minister’s stance on climate change and his decision to act on the crisis.
Despite this, The i newspaper reported not a single Tory leadership candidate attended the most recent emergency briefing, hosted by the all-party parliamentary group on climate change.
Rose said he was “fairly happy” with the outcome of his hunger strike, but was disappointed that no leadership hopefuls attended.