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Alok Sharma

July 2024

  • Ana Toni, Ed Miliband and Mukhtar Babayev speaking on a grand staircase against their national flags

    Ed Miliband says Labour will honour pledge of £11.6bn in overseas climate aid

    Energy secretary seeks to reestablish UK as a global leader on the climate crisis with meeting of Cop presidents

January 2024

  • Alok Sharma

    Alok Sharma condemns government’s oil and gas bill as vote passes first hurdle

    Former Cop26 president abstains from vote saying bill breaks UK’s promise to phase out fossil fuels
  • Alok Sharma

    Alok Sharma: I won’t back UK government’s oil and gas bill

    Former Cop26 chair says bill reinforces ‘unfortunate perception about UK rowing back from climate action’
  • A section of an oil platform projects out into the North Sea

    Rishi Sunak’s woes mount with oil bill rebellion, byelections and asylum row

    Parliament returns for election year with a resignation over North Sea drilling and a fight over the Tories’ Rwanda plan

December 2023

  • David Cameron at the Lords European affairs committee.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Cameron defends UK’s decision not to vote for UN resolution demanding ceasefire in Gaza – as it happened

  • A firefighter looks on during a fire near the village of Vati, just north of the town of Gennadi, in the southern part of the Greek island of Rhodes on 25 July.

    Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’

September 2023

  • Alok Sharma

    Alok Sharma to stand down as MP at next election

    Former Cop26 president announces he will not stand in Reading West seat he has held since 2010
  • An electric car plugged into a EV charging point,

    Alok Sharma challenges Rishi Sunak: show us how UK can meet green pledges

    Former Cop chair says emissions cuts must be made elsewhere and ministers must show how they plan to achieve this
  • A windfarm in Northamptonshire

    Sharma: onshore windfarms in England need ‘much more permissive planning regime’

    Former Cop26 president says political parties not tackling climate crisis will pay heavy price at ballot box

June 2023

  • Nigel Adams.

    Sunak faces test as another Johnson ally quits triggering third byelection

  • Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in Downing Street in December 2021

    Sunak approves Boris Johnson honours list including aides linked to Partygate

March 2023

  • Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock pictured leaving Downing Street in 2019.

    Matt Hancock ridiculed Sunak’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, messages show

    Then health secretary tried to get support of then cabinet secretary, according to leaked WhatsApp texts

February 2023

  • Rishi Sunak, as chancellor, in Venice

    Tory ministers accused of five-star lifestyle and using public money ‘like a cash machine’

    Labour to publish dossier of spending by government representatives on luxury hotels and chauffeur hire

December 2022

  • Wind turbines in the Lake District

    Sunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion

  • The proposed site for a new coal mine in Cumbria.

    Cumbria coalmine plan is ‘backward step’, says Alok Sharma

November 2022

  • A general view of a wind farm

    Alok Sharma backs bid to lift ban on onshore windfarms in England

    Tory MP becomes latest member of party to get behind push to drop moratorium with reports Michael Gove also supports move
  • Climate protesters in Egypt

    Fear of backsliding on Glasgow pledges dominates Cop27

    Tentative drafts are emerging but some countries appear to be seeking to water down commitments agreed last year

    • Limit of 1.5C global heating is at risk, Alok Sharma warns at Cop27

    • Climate carnage: whose job is it to save the planet? – documentary

    • Who has Boris Johnson nominated for peerages?

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