The candidates to be Britain’s next prime minister faced less than two minutes of questioning about the climate emergency from UK broadcasters yesterday after a record-breaking heatwave that destroyed dozens of homes.
Neither BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme nor GB News asked foreign secretary Liz Truss a single question about the climate crisis on Thursday, while LBC’s Andrew Marr asked two questions on the subject, dedicating a minute and 59 seconds of a half-hour interview to the subject.
In total, the candidates were interviewed for an hour by the three broadcasters, meaning climate questions made up about 3% of the interviews, a figure described as “truly damning” by Green MP Caroline Lucas.
