Rishi Sunak defends halving domestic flight taxes in Cop26 run-up

Labour accuses chancellor of going headlong in wrong direction' over tackling climate emergency

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Rishi Sunak has defended cutting domestic flight taxes in the run-up to next week's Cop26 summit, after being accused of going headlong in the wrong direction" about tackling climate emergency at a pivotal point for Britain.

Labour said it was an astonishing" announcement from the chancellor in Wednesday's budget, given the UK government will urge many world leaders, set to arrive in Scotland within days, to speed up decarbonisation plans in their own countries.