Digested week: Forget the climate crisis – re-election is Sunak’s only burning issue

Rishi Sunak no longer even seems indifferent to 2030 and 2050 targets – they were just dates picked at random to him. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters

Monday

You would have thought the sight of wildfires in many parts of southern Europe would have given Rishi Sunak pause for thought. Instead it has inspired his pyromaniac tendencies. After the byelection in Uxbridge last week, which Labour lost principally because of Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone policy, Sunak has declared a binfire of the Tories’ green agenda. He had never really believed in it – despite most of the country supporting climate crisis measures – and had now declared it to be just a woke indulgence. Another arm of the culture wars.