Sunak accused of retreating from global climate leadership at Cop28

PM attracts cross-party criticism with claim that climate politics is at breaking point' during combative summit visit

Rishi Sunak has been accused of shrinking and retreating" from global leadership as he used the Cop28 summit to claim that climate politics is at breaking point" because of the costs of net zero.

While many other world leaders, including King Charles, spoke of the urgency of action on the climate, the prime minister used his brief appearance at the summit in Dubai to promote his approach to slowing the pace of net zero policies and reducing pressures on family finances.