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He would be a regular visitor to her home in Frosterley Drive in Darlington, Mr Lumley said, with him first meeting Charlie in March.

The intensifying economic and environmental pressures of the warming climate are now beginning to drive new wedges into old divisions.

Deforestation and flooding in Bangladesh, the collapse of Black Sea fisheries, the desertification of sub-Saharan Africa and “a nearly endless list” of other issues, he said, would drive human migration.

“The climate is certainly changing,” he had told me when we’d first arranged to meet, and “it will certainly drive immigration.”

Economists have warned that such tariffs could drive up consumer prices as companies pass on higher costs, potentially worsening inflation and putting further interest rate cuts on hold.