Yesterday, the Climate and Nature Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons. The Bill was introduced by Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage on 16 October 2024 and had its first reading on the same day. 102 MPs were required to vote in favour of the bill to progress to the next stage; instead, 120 MPs voted to adjourn the debate for the second reading. The Bill is scheduled to be debated again on 11 July. Savage opened yesterday’s debate by explaining the purpose of the Bill was to align with “international commitments.” The seven MPs who voted “Noe” at the end of the debate have arrogantly “misunderstood” who they work for and who pays their salaries. They do not work for foreign parties or organisations – they work for us. (Please note: When we first published this article we incorrectly understood that MPs had voted to progress the Bill when in fact they had voted to adjourn its second reading. We were working from a version of Hansard that was a yet-to-be “corrected” transcript of the debate and some of the details, e.g. the question put to the House on which MPs voted and the adjournment date were not yet completed, which usually takes about 24 hours. We thank our readers for pointing out this significant misunderstanding. We have now corrected our article to reflect this. The vast majority of our article’s text remains unchanged.)