Sunak’s bold climate plan? Wait until 2047 – then push the panic button | John Crace

Close to implosion on Radio 4, the PM insists to Nick Robinson that he is not watering anything down. Even though he is

A night's sleep had done nothing for Rishi Sunak's mood. The prime minister dislikes being challenged at the best of times. He has the entitled demeanour of someone convinced of his own brilliance. A politician for whom the idea of getting something wrong is a category error. Who can't understand why anyone might question him. He's right because he's always right. A man not prone to self-reflection or self-doubt. And now he had to face the BBC's Nick Robinson in a 20-minute interview on the Today programme to defend his climate crisis speech. The last thing he wanted to do.

Robinson began by observing they were sitting in the Thatcher Room at Downing Street and that Margaret Thatcher had taken climate change very seriously. Sunak meanwhile had chosen not to go to the United Nations general assembly and was busy watering down the UK's efforts to combat global heating.