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It’s hard to see COP26 as truly historic as Boris Johnson has claimed

Passing phase

AS the dust settles on COP26, much hay has been made about the last-minute watering down of a key pledge to “phase down” rather than “phase out” coal use.

But where we are now, that difference is largely semantic.

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Boris Johnson needs to urgently turn to all the other problems that have piled up on his desk in the past two weeks[/caption]

If India and China — the countries that objected — do nevertheless meaningfully and swiftly reduce coal use, that would be significant progress, regardless of whether they’ve vowed to snuff it out altogether.

But that is a big if — and the fact they chose to haggle over the wording should be a source of shame to both.

Summit president Alok Sharma is right to say both mega-polluters will have to explain their heel-dragging to poorer nations bearing the brunt of climate change.

With so many cans kicked down the road to COP27 in Egypt next year, it’s hard at the moment to see COP26 as truly historic as Boris Johnson claimed yesterday — even that eternal optimist only rated it at “over six out of ten” .

The PM, meanwhile, needs to urgently turn to all the other problems that have piled up on his desk in the past two weeks.

Rayn it in, Ang

WE’RE glad the penny seems to have dropped for the PM after his admission yesterday that his handling of the Tory sleaze scandal “could have been better”.

Boris’s own goals have been maddening but at least he seems to have been shaken out of his complacency.

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Angela Rayner railed at Tories with second jobs even as she blanked questions about Sir Keir Starmer’s extra income[/caption]

The same can’t be said of Labour, whose foghorn deputy leader Angela Rayner railed at Tories with second jobs, even as she blanked questions about her own leader’s extra income.

We’re sure voters are keen to know why Sir Keir Starmer has been moonlighting for law firms, especially when he’s struggling to make a decent fist of his main job.

Export advice

WE like International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan’s vision for a post-Brexit boom in British exports.

For nearly 40 years now our exports of goods have lagged behind imports, a potential weakness in our economy.

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We like International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan’s vision for a post-Brexit boom in British exports[/caption]

The minister vows her new campaign will rev up exports in goods and services, and give the levelling-up agenda a jolt.

A trading future to match our glorious past? Consider us sold.

Duds’ Army

THE mood of Remembrance Day commemorations is usually one of solemn dignity.

Not so much two hapless ex-soldiers rumbling up to a village’s war memorial in a rented Scimitar tank, then crashing it into the garden’s poppy-crested gates.

Two hapless ex-soldiers rumbled up to a village’s war memorial in a rented Scimitar tank

Their blunder will no doubt have given their fellow veterans a good chuckle.

But next year, lads, maybe just stick to a wreath.

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