Boris Behaves at COP: The Readout With Allegra Stratton

This week The Readout comes to you from the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

Well that wasn’t expected. Boris Johnson turned up at COP27 to join the current UK prime minister and cabinet ministers, insisting he was “just a foot soldier and spear carrier.” Shock of all shocks, that seemed to be the case. Breaking the habit of a lifetime, he tried very hard not to steal the limelight. Indeed, he may have been the one to stick to the script.