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Rishi Sunak slammed for skipping COP27 summit
Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions as Prime Minister at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday October 26, 2022.

PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak was accused today of a “massive failure of leadership” after pulling out of the Cop27 climate summit, due to be held next week in Egypt. 

Shadow secretary for climate change Ed Miliband said that the decision was an “embarrassing reflection” of the Tory government’s failure to deliver on its Cop26 commitments during the summit in Glasgow last year. 

“This is a massive failure of climate leadership,” he said.

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