Dear Keir Starmer: here’s what you should know about Sunak’s attack on climate policy – he lied and lied

‘The Conservatives have turned the climate into a culture war.’ Photograph: PA

Keir Starmer faces a challenge at party conference that no UK opposition leader has faced in more than 30 years. He will have to defend his climate policy against a bitter and sustained attack.

Since the late 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher became the first UK prime minister to vow to tackle the climate crisis, a cross-party consensus on the issue has endured. In the last eight general elections, there has been no serious debate over whether to try to cut greenhouse gas emissions, only over how.