Thérèse Coffey defends Rishi Sunak’s decision to miss Cop27 as PM accused of ‘failure of leadership’ – UK politics live

Earlier this morning, the environment secretary Thérèse Coffey defended Rishi Sunak’s decision to skip the Cop27 climate summit by arguing that it was not one of the “big political summits” and that this year’s conference would be more about implementation.

The Guardian’s Damian Carrington points out that implementation is a vital issue and that more than 90…