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Keir Starmer could have stayed at home |
The prime minister flew to the climate summit meeting in Brazil because he was scared of Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party, hoovering up disaffected Labour voters. He need not have bothered, according to a YouGov analysis of tactical voting. It found that Liberal Democrat and Green voters would flock to Labour to stop Nigel Farage becoming prime minister at the next election. Keir Starmer was unsure about going to Brazil, partly because he is worried about being seen as the "prime minister for abroad", and partly because the annual UN summits have become a virtue-signalling circus of limited use in dealing with climate change – none of the four biggest global warmers, China, the US, India and Russia, is attending. He could have stayed at home and warned instead of the dangers of a Farage-led government abolishing the net zero target altogether. |
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