David Lammy sounded the alarm over global warming “accelerating towards us” as thousands of people were told to flee to higher ground as devastating floods hit central Europe. The Foreign Secretary vowed to put the “climate and nature emergency at the centre of UK foreign policy”.

David Lammy is set to warn that the climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time. Available now . 6 hours, 26 minutes

The threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat, but it is more fundamental, it is systemic, it's pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace. Too often it's felt the preserve of experts and campaigners fluent in sometimes the impenetrable dialect of cops,