Time is short for Tories and Labour to show leadership on the climate crisis

Neither party is showing much appetite for the hard policy decisions that are necessary to cut CO₂ emissions - and time is running out

The Conservatives are lagging far behind on the climate crisis, that much we know. But the Labour party is not showing the leadership that the country needs on reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has warned.

Lord Deben, a former Conservative environment secretary, has long been a critic of the government, and recently praised Labour's stance on opposing new oil and gas licences in the North Sea.