In fact all sides of the house were together for perhaps the first time in acknowledging the scale of the climate change emergency before us. However it is almost too late. Everything that the climate change scientists, and those of us on the right side of the debate, have been warning us about is coming true.

That said I feel far from smug that what I have been saying for the last 21 years turned out to be right. In fact I feel scared stiff because we are at 2 minutes to 12 and the ability to do anything about climate change is on our watch. Those of us who are MPs now and in the next 10 years need to be the ones to act if we are to halt catastrophic climate change.

I called on the Minister for Energy and Climate Change to bring forward a substantial debate on government time to discuss the climate change emergency and what the government need to do to act. Unfortunately their Clean Growth Plan is not it, leaving us as it does 9.7% over the 5th Carbon Budget and nowhere close to net zero emissions within the time frame needed to slow down climate change.