Boris Johnson has criticised net zero "naysayers" who want to "frack the hell out of the British countryside" in his first appearance at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
Speaking at an event hosted by The New York Times on the first day of the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, the former prime minister said the fight against climate change had become a "collateral victim" of the Ukraine war, which caused "naysayers to adopt a corrosive cynicism about net zero".
In a swipe at other Conservatives - including his successor Liz Truss who had planned to lift the ban on fracking in England - Mr Johnson declared that it is "not the moment to ban the campaign for net zero" despite the ongoing energy crisis.
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