It’s a shame, as I wanted to ask him specifically about the very subject he had called the press conference for, writes GB News' Chief Political Correspondent

“I want to talk to people who disagree with me”, Green leader Zack Polanski recently told The Sunday Times.

At today’s press conference on climate change in Central London, he did not take a question from us, although he did give questions to the other broadcasters, and even to the Daily Express.

And in the glossy Sunday Times magazine article in May, the journalist had caveated his claim to talk to people with different views with the words “with the exception of GB News and The Sun”.

It’s a shame, as I wanted to ask him specifically about the very subject he had called the press conference for: the record temperatures we have been enduring this summer and how we should respond to them.

As he warned that climate change poses “the biggest threat to our lives and living standards since the Second World War” and that the repeated heatwaves, hosepipe bans and failing harvests are “only just the beginning”, he slammed Andy Burnham’s new Government as being “far, far too quiet” and being guilty of “a dereliction of duty”.

He talked about the benefits of “British wind and British solar”, both of which clearly are vital as we transition away from fossil fuels.

But, with Ed Miliband safely installed as Foreign Secretary rather than Energy (or Chancellor, as he coveted), it sounds like the Prime Minister is open to using our reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea, something which has already delighted US President Donald Trump.

I wanted to ask him why it is better for the environment to ship oil and gas from halfway round the world than to use our own resources off our own shores.

Others tried but got nowhere, but then clearly, given we will need oil and gas in the mix for many years, there isn’t really an argument that bringing it thousands of miles is better for the planet than using what remains in the North Sea.

And I wanted to ask him about “heatproof homes”, which the Greens called for today, which they want to have “in place by next summer”. What does that mean?

As an NHS doctor at the event pointed out, our homes and our NHS are not built for the heat we are now experiencing.

There have been 3,000 excess deaths in the UK this summer to date because of the heat.

Some NHS trusts have declared critical incidents; with machines to treat cancer not working because of the temperatures, and instances of 35 degrees centigrade on geriatric wards, though it is known that the heat is especially dangerous for the elderly.

A fan can only help so much, and I wanted detail on what “heatproof homes” meant, given air conditioning, widespread in countries used to high temperatures such as Australia, is expensive and energy intensive. But makes a massive difference and so can save lives.

And should we not be expanding air conditioning in our hospitals and schools?

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you Polanski’s view on this as I didn’t get to ask him. But we will keep trying.