Keir Starmer spent two days at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil discussing with other world leaders how best to prevent the end of the world.

In many ways, it was the perfect preparation for his return to the UK, where he must confront “the existential threat” facing both the Labour Party and his government after yet another disastrous week.

The prime minister had only belatedly decided to fly to South America in what has been seen by many as an attempt to burnish his environmental credentials in the face of the growing threat to Labour from the Green Party .

As if to emphasise that point, a new poll by Find Out Now put the Greens on an all-time high of 18% , ahead of Labour and only second to Reform UK.

Writing in the New Statesman , pollster Scarlett Maguire said: “A more p

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