'Shameless.' 'Sleazy.' 'Guilty.' British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced damning headlines on Thursday that cast his government in the worst possible light just as he browbeats world powers to show moral leadership over climate change.
Boris Johnson's government tore up the rulebook on how parliament polices ethical lapses by its membersLONDON -"Shameless.""Sleazy.""Guilty." British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced damning headlines on Thursday that cast his government in the worst possible light just as he browbeats world powers to show moral leadership over climate change.
"It's a perversion of justice," he told BBC radio, expressing a view shared by Caroline Lucas, Britain's only Green MP, who accused the government of a series of actions"that stink of hypocrisy". The government later backtracked and said the proposed disciplinary reforms would not apply to the Paterson case.
If the leaders"fluff our lines or miss our cue" on the planetary crisis, future generations"will not forgive us", he said in opening a COP26 summit on Monday. The cuts have added to difficulties for COP delegates from poorer countries struggling to obtain Covid-19 vaccines and facing sky-high costs to travel to Glasgow and stay anywhere close to Scotland's biggest city.
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