Like many people in Watford I’m beginning to take climate change seriously and I’m delighted that for once the main political parties agree on the need for urgent action if we are to meet the UK’s commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. They are to be congratulated. But I’m concerned that so far little is actually being done and that the Government is failing to match many of its promises with action.

We are just months away from the COP26 Conference in Glasgow and yet the Climate Change Committee, a government advisory body, warned this week that there is at present a “vacuum” in policy. So come on Boris, please give climate change the attention so many of us think it deserves. If you turn your promises into action you will have the thanks of us all.

Philip Parry

South West Herts Labour Party