London: Britain's opposition is demanding Prime Minister Boris Johnson boycott

London: Britain's opposition is demanding Prime Minister Boris Johnson boycott Australia's campaign to have Mathias Cormann installed as the next head of the OECD saying the former cabinet minister's denialist climate change record makes him unfit for the job. Cormann announced in July that he was quitting as finance minister and is running to replace Angel Gurria as secretary-general of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Labour's spokeswoman for trade. Emily Thornberry has written to the British Prime Minister, demanding he guarantee that Britain will not back Cormann, who was instrumental in twice removing Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal party leader, over his record on climate policy. Australia's Labor Party has backed Cormann's OECD bid. Johnson hosted an international climate summit on the weekend from which Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison was denied a speaking slot, widely viewed as a result of the Liberal and National party's resistance to mitigating carbon emissions.