David Cameron had hoped that the UK’s £650 million contribution to the Green Climate Fund wouldn’t get much attention in the week that the Tories are going head-to-head with Ukip in Rochester and Strood. But there it is, in the newspapers today, with angry quotes.
It is being billed as a threat to the Tory fight against Ukip, but some MPs think it has a wider resonance. One grumbles:
‘Why is Cameron one minute promising in the Guardian to not let up in tackling our debt and then the next splashing £650 million on a UN green fund? He’s like the guy who, when on a night out with people he is trying to impress, throws all reason out of the window and starts buying rounds of champagne!’
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