Rishi Sunak is coming under growing pressure to do a U-turn on attending the UN climate summit.
Former PM Boris Johnson has confirmed he will attend the COP27 climate conference in Egypt next week after being invited by the organisers.
Mr Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss had been set to go when she was PM and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will also be at the event.Mr Johnson said he had a "particular interest" in going to the United Nations conference, which aims to get international agreement on reducing carbon emissions.
He argued that the UK-hosted COP "was a fantastic global success" which was "doing a huge a mount of good for the planet".
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