Tiny minority of UK parliamentarians attend emergency climate briefing

Just 70 MPs and peers saw Sir Patrick Vallance showcase data that converted Boris Johnson to climate cause before Cop26

Only 70 MPs and peers attended an emergency climate briefing by the UK government's chief scientific adviser in parliament on Monday, the Guardian has learned.

The briefing, organised by the climate change all-party parliamentary group, was an updated version of the slides that the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, showed Boris Johnson before the UN climate summit Cop26 in Glasgow in November.