Craig Kelly interview: senior government MPs distance themselves after Piers Morgan lashing

The Good Morning Britain host called the conservative Liberal MP 'disgraceful' for denying climate link to bushfires

Senior government ministers have sought to distance themselves from conservative Liberal MP Craig Kelly who sparked controversy by telling UK television there was no link between climate change and Australia's bushfire crisis.

Kelly, a longstanding critic of climate change action, was lambasted as a "denier" and "disgraceful" by the conservative British commentator Piers Morgan and the meteorologist Laura Tobin in a combative interview on ITV overnight.