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‘Adapting to the Climate Crisis Needs to be Done in Ways that Tackle Inequality at the Same Time’

Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare for – while Nigel Farage weaponises net zero. We need to quickly become resilient to extreme climate, writes Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP

Flooding around Pulborough in West Sussex in March
Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA

In July 2022, the UK experienced its first recorded temperature above 40°C and, as a recent Met Office report on the state of the climate put it, record-breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in this country during the past decade.

For the majority of us, the effects of this change still feel relatively benign. Sunnier days and longer, drier summers – what’s not to like? And, with the Government mostly silent about what we need to do to adapt to the ever-shifting new ‘normal’, most of us can be forgiven for thinking that everything is under control.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

Mandrake – Slow Responders

Having largely gone along with the Government’s position on Gaza, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey suddenly seemed to awaken to the humanitarian crisis when he called on Keir Starmer to take undefined “sanctions” against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his part in the “ethnic cleansing”.
Tim Walker

The New Left Party That Didn’t Need to Happen

The centralised and punishing approach of Labour under Keir Starmer risks his party losing voters at the next election to more progressive candidates who do not embrace the politics of Reform UK, writes Jonathan Lis
Jonathan Lis