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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Jet-setting Starmer graces Cop29 with bold claims and few plans

Keir Starmer
‘We’re not going to tell people how to live their lives,’ Starmer said when asked how emission targets would be achieved. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

If it’s Tuesday, it must be Baku. Keir Starmer’s Rolling Thunder Permatour has now hit Azerbaijan for Cop29. Next week he will be off to Brazil for the G20. And who knows, he might even drop in to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the way back.

After all it’s been almost a month since he was last in the US having dinner with The Donald in his understated golden penthouse. He wouldn’t want to appear too needy, of course, but why pass up an opportunity to persuade the president-elect that he had never really meant any of those beastly things he had said about him in the past. Just a joke. Hahaha. Lols.

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