opinion | John Kerry’s British election mediation

Remember American politicians who claim to marvel at foreign interference in domestic American politics? There is apparently an exception when John Kerry is interfering in another country’s election. Watch the US climate envoy Kerfuffle in the United Kingdom this weekend with his intervention in the Conservative Party leadership race.

Climate policy is an issue in the competition to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory leader and British prime minister after so much economic damage to Mr Johnson’s green ambitions. Green levies and hostility to domestic oil and gas production contributed to a 54% increase in domestic energy costs in April, with a 40% increase expected in October. One of Mr Johnson’s worst blunders was that homes were forced to give up the natural-gas boilers used for hot water and central heating, and instead spent thousands of dollars installing heat pumps. Went.