Boris’s commitment to climate awareness is now extending to recycling his own material. Appearing last night as the headline speaker at the International Symposium on Blockchain Advancements in Singapore – speaker fees as of yet undisclosed – the ex-PM again made a lighthearted reference to his own downfall in the summer, blaming the scorching 40 degree heatwave for melting the brains of his own backbenchers:

“I mean, even in the UK it was 40 degrees in July this year, which you know, in my view, may explain why . . . British people find it very difficult to think of 40 degrees heat in the summer. I think it may explain some of the irrational decisions that you saw in Westminster round about that period […] I think future historians may want to look at the role of global warming in the change of government there…”

Another hot take…