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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Cindy You and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth. So as Biden counts down to his end of his first 100 days in office, he's holding a virtual summit with world leaders today all about climate change. Katie, this is anticipating COP26 a bit, stealing the thunder out of the British government.

Yes, and I think one of many. I mean, well, let's see if COP 26 goes ahead. It's worth

pointing out this is a virtual summit, which is what lots of countries think COP 26th and

November should be. But Boris Johnson did get to speak. And in terms of his comments, he paid

tribute to Joe Biden in terms of what America is doing

and ambitious targets for cutting emissions.

But also said America showed and also what the UK is doing that tacting climate change is

about growth and jobs, not expensive bunny hugging.

What is bunny hugging?

Well, we were saying before we started recording, it's probably quite hard to get a bunny to hug you. I had a pet, money once, but it was

actually quite ferocious. But anyway, it's also the second time he's used the phrase. I think

it's been dug out from a previous telegraph column too. But I think it goes ultimately down to

something I wrote about in last week's magazine, which is the type of greenery

Boris Johnson wants to promote. We know that the environmental agenda is increasingly important to this

government. I think both in terms of foreign policy, you can see today how the government ultimately

want to use it to build this bridge to Biden to cozy up. Also, with COP 26 to show the UK as an active player, but also

domestically, I think it is seen as a great unifier. And ultimately, part of that is this

idea that you can bring voters around, perhaps to the Tories by uniting them in things like

climate change, who perhaps didn't support

Boris Johnson and he was seen as a populist, Brexiteer. And clearly, then you start talking

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