'Starmer is choosing to align himself with a failing and costly agenda,' says Jacob Rees-Mogg

Top of the agenda is trillions of pounds in climate reparations, in which the UK would be dragged into a package whereby developed nations would splash taxpayers', that's your cash on developing nations.

Well, it may surprise you to hear that in we've already been paying climate reparations, precisely £11.6billion of your hard earned money.

Granted, it was a sum set by the last Government, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a mistake and remains one now. But will Sir Keir succumb to such demands? Well, as in the case of slavery reparations, it really appears to be a case of chickens coming home to roost.

Remember that in 2022, Pakistan had disastrous flooding in spite of having its own space program and nuclear weapons. At that time, it called for climate reparations, which Ed Miliband, now the Secretary of State in charge, indicated he supported, claiming that we had an historic responsibility.

It's almost as if Ed Miliband takes his cue from climate fanatic Greta Garbo.

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These are the people who are now in charge, and it's no wonder less developed countries want to squeeze all the juice out of the climate change reparations orange.

But the real point is that Starmer is choosing to align himself with a failing and costly agenda, just as Donald Trump is elected US President.

A man who understands the need for energy independence, that cheap energy is the way to grow the economy, and the nations will never achieve anything by making themselves poorer.

Reverend Starmer has done the opposite of seizing the opportunity his election represents for the special relationship and having schmoozed EU leaders last week, he's now at Cop29.

Is he ever in the UK? He is in Cop29 to identify himself with Net Zero.

The future of a post-Brexit Britain lies with alignment with the United States and economically active country, not with the dead hand of Europe, and certainly not with the climate fanatics in Azerbaijan.

Only when we pursue, like America has, energy independence and domestic fossil fuel productions and note that Norway is trying to maximise North Sea oil and gas output as we close ours down, as well as cheap energy and market driven solutions, can we expect to improve living standards of, as Starmer would say, working people and the sons of toolmakers.