Liz Truss must attend, but new prime minister has ‘other urgent national commitments’
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Rishi Sunak will not attend next month’s COP27 summit in Egypt, even as hopes for a deal to avert uncontrolled weather begin to fade.
Liz Truss is due to make a stopover at least a day before the fortnight’s event, but the new prime minister’s spokesman said she had “other urgent national commitments. “
He pointed to the de facto budget now postponed until Nov. 17, when the government will unveil massive spending cuts and tax increases to ease the economic crisis.
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