When it comes to green policies, Rishi Sunak is colour blind …

Rishi Sunak is still haunted by the ghost of Boris Johnson, as Partygate and now Chris Pincher – the two scandals which brought down the former prime minister – remain in the headlines, scuppering a frustrated Sunak’s attempts to move on. While most Conservative MPs regard the Johnson regime as disastrous and welcome the relative stability under Sunak, there’s a growing recognition amongst them that Johnson did better than Sunak in one area. Not Ukraine, on which Sunak has matched his unwavering support – but climate change. Sunak is no climate denier, but is just ‘not interested,” as Tory peer Zac Goldsmith told Channel 4 News a week after his resignation as a minister with a parting shot at the prime minister’s ‘apathy’ on the issue.