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Prince Charles warns world leaders COP26 is ‘last chance saloon’ to save planet
Prince Charles has warned world leaders that the COP26 climate summit is the "last chance saloon" to save the planet from the effects of climate change.


UN Climate Action Champion says Scottish Secretary’s backing of Cambo oil field ‘flies in the face of the science’
Earlier, inside the COP bubble, I spoke to the UK Government's High Level Climate Action Champion, Nigel Topping. The role was created in 2015 at the climate talks in Paris to help businesses around the world lower carbon emissions and build resilien...


COP26 climate summit begins in Glasgow
As the conference formally began here on the banks of the Clyde, hundreds of passengers hoping to travel to the climate summit by train were stranded after a tree fell on the tracks halting services from London.


Inside COP26’s ‘Blue Zone’
Well our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is inside what's known as the Blue Zone, where delegates from nearly 200 countries have been arriving for the two-week summit.


’Woke wars’ inside the National Trust?
National Trust members today got a chance to take part in the so-called culture war against woke-ism.


Environmentalists raise questions about fossil fuel industry’s influence over COP26
Now with the COP26 climate summit starting on Monday in Glasgow, questions have been raised about the fossil fuel industry's influence over the event.


Boris Johnson warns humanity could go back to ‘dark ages’ without urgent action
Boris Johnson has warned world leaders that failure at the COP26 climate conference could push civilisation backwards into a new "dark age". 


Full interview: Boris Johnson on COP26 and UK government’s plan to tackle climate change
Political Editor Gary Gibbon talks to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G20 summit in Rome, and asks him about the UK government's plan to tackle climate change ahead of COP26.


Serving Met Police officer charged with rape
A Metropolitan Police officer has been remanded in custody after he was charged with rape.


Budget 2021: What chancellor’s budget looks like at sharp end
How has the chancellor's budget gone down with people dealing with all the economic pressure and uncertainty of these times? 


Budget 2021: Lib Dems accuse chancellor of giving more tax cuts to bankers
The Lib Dems and the Scottish National Party have also been giving their reaction to the budget.


Budget set out ‘more on booze than climate change’, says Labour’s Bridget Phillipson
We spoke to the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Bridget Phillipson.


Government confident inflation will ‘peak’ and fall next year, says chief secretary to the Treasury
We spoke to Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke and began by asking him how the government intends to level up while lowering the bank levy, which could end up meaning a massive boost for the economy in the South East.


Budget 2021: Sunak unleashes spending spree partly funded by higher taxes
The chancellor hailed what he called the "age of optimism", seizing his chance to raid a public purse less battered by the pandemic than expected


‘Higher wages for all’: will Boris Johnson’s economic vision work?
Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi explains if Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak can deliver on their new economic model and create a brighter future.



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