Cop26: Ed Miliband urges UK PM to ‘get off the sun lounger and start being a statesman’

Shadow business secretary hits out at Boris Johnson and says Britain is stalling on climate pledges

Boris Johnson needs to get off the sun lounger and start being a statesman" with less than three weeks to go before the Cop26 global climate change summit in Glasgow, Ed Miliband will say on Wednesday.

With Johnson on holiday in Spain, the shadow business secretary will say the UK is in danger of allowing greenwashing" at Cop26, with insufficient pledges from countries across the world so far to make the summit a success.