Who can blame the Greens’ co-leader for not getting a heat pump?

Far be it from me to give advice to the Green Party. From their insistence that ordinary people put up with being poorer and colder to ‘save the planet’ to the alarmingly high number of Israelophobic, 7 October-denying cranks on their candidates list, I’m really not a fan. Still, I’d gently suggest that the golden rule for any Green vying for election is to practise what you preach on climate. If you are standing on a manifesto of national immiseration, you’d better be willing to go without the fossil-fuelled comforts you want to rip away from everyone else.

Not so for Carla Denyer, it seems. The Greens’ co–leader (apparently running a party with one MP is too much work for one person) has been caught out as an eco-hypocrite. Denyer has admitted to ITV, as part of its party-leader interviews series, that she still has a gas boiler.