Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictators

Which former British prime minister described the climate emergency as a clock ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engines ... quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO₂"?

The florid style gives it away. You'd guess Boris Johnson even if you'd forgotten that the master of Brexit bombast also had a sideline in net zero evangelism. It wasn't the most memorable part of his repertoire and it didn't catch on as a Conservative catechism.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist