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Can a ‘demented seal’ mascot save COP26?

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

This time last year, Boris Johnson and his team were making plans to ‘move on’ from the pandemic. He had been elected thanks to Brexit, then had to handle the Covid disaster, but he didn’t want either to define his government. ‘We have an indecent amount of great stuff to get into as soon as this ends,’ he’d tell supporters privately.

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