General election 2019 latest: Johnson gives climate debate the cold shoulder

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Party leaders - and ice sculpture stand-ins - at the climate debate
(Image credit: Kirsty O'Connor - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Voters were last night treated to another televised face-off between politicians battling to secure No. 10, as the clock ticks down towards the general election.

Channel 4 invited all the main parties’ leaders to take part in the climate debate. But Boris Johnson and the Brexit Party’s Nigel Farage were conspicuously absent - and were represented instead by slowly melting ice sculptures.

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