Boris Johnson, Climate Ambition Summit 2020 Boris Johnson, Climate Ambition Summit 2020. Photo: Freddie Mitchell / No 10 Downing Street / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

As the movement prepares to mobilise for the Cop26 Summit, Jamal Elaheebocus speaks to author and activist Elaine Graham-Leigh on the role of the left

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