Pray in aid: Following reports at the weekend that Truss is unhappy about Rishi Sunak’s cut to foreign aid, the Guardian’s Larry Elliott has discover he’s aiming to save billions of pounds by counting as aid financial assistance to poor countries being provid as a result of a windfall Britain has receiv from the International Monetary Fund. Former Conservative International Development Secretaries Justine Greening and Andrew Mitchell are chees off, while a government spokesperson said: “The U.K. is one of the leading international aid donors and this year we provid over £10 billion towards poverty ruction, climate change, and global health security.”
aren’t the place to push for climate deals, according to clean energy expert and adviser to the U.K. Board of Trade Michael Liebreich. In response to the furor over a revelation last month that the U.K. had dropp a trade demand that Australia commit to the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, he told POLITICO’s Karl Mathiesen the leak was “actually extremely unhelpful and mischievous.”
We’ll always have Paris: “We sign the Paris
Agreement,” said Liebreich, who was one of the key authors of the government’s green trade report. The 1.5 degree goal “is referr to in that trade deal. Why do we ne to start pulling out individual causes, individual temperatures?” Liebreich said he would have fir the civil servant responsible for the leak. More in today’s POLITICO Pro Morning Energy newsletter.
A royal knees-up: The queen will attend the COP26 climate buy phone number list summit in Glasgow in November for a diplomatic reception, per Hannah Furness and Olivia Rudgard in the Telegraph, as the U.K. tries to pull out all the stops to convince other countries to sign up to a raft of climate goals. Princes Charles and William are expect to address the conference as well as hold talks with key world leaders.
No whispering at the back: Back to Truss
who has also reveal something of her ambitions for her equalities brief by appointing Katharine Birbalsingh the new social mobility commissioner. The Sunday Telegraph’s ward administration and on the eu to back cyprus Malnick, who got the scoop, quot Truss as saying she want the headteacher known for her strictness to hong kong lists tackle “the soft bigotry of low expectations” in Britain.
Salad days: Birbalsingh’s appointment is likely to be controversial and a sign Truss has no intention of shying away from the culture wars, but Playbook spoke to at least one happy customer. Robert Halfon, chairman of the ucation committee, told us: “KB will upturn lazy and conventional thinking. She challenges all those in authority to think again and is not afraid to call a spade a shovel. The Social Mobility Commission had become — since Alan Milburn — pretty mushy and lettuce-leaf like and did very little compar to the Centre for Social Justice or Sutton Trust. Birbalsingh will change that.
