We need to suspend silly season - the climate warning bells are deafening

Madeleine Cuff
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Parliament is considering starting its summer holiday early, but it is hard to think of a worse time for the political class to be so distracted

Later today MPs are set to vote on whether they should go on summer break early, in a move widely recognised as an attempt to suspend Tory in-fighting and save any further collapse in Prime Minister May's...

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