Johnson’s absence in Channel 4 debate mars milestone for environmental politics Tories threaten Channel 4 after ice sculpture takes PM’s place Opposition leaders attempted to outbid each other on Thursday night with their climate credentials in the first ever
election debate focusing on the environmental emergency, in which the absent
Boris Johnson was replaced by a melting ice sculpture.
In place of the prime minister, Channel 4 placed an ice sculpture, representing, they said, the emergency on planet Earth. A second ice sculpture took the place of
Brexit party leader
Nigel Farage, who also refused to take part.