内容摘要："The nurses said five minutes more and that would have been it... gone."

"The nurses said five minutes more and that would have been it... gone."

But the committee heard this more detailed work on biodiversity targets was now likely to take a further four years, meaning they would not be in place until at least 2029.This is significant because of the Welsh government's support for a

to halt and begin to reverse the loss of nature by 2030.The then climate change minister Julie James attended the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada in 2022 where the deal was struck, also committing to a goal of protecting and managing 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030.Llyr Gruffydd, chairman of the Senedd's climate change, environment and infrastructure committee, said the government's rhetoric on nature loss "isn't followed up with action".

"They've been talking the talk for a long time, we now need to see them walking the walk," he said.If biodiversity targets were not in place before 2029, then the government "can't be serious" about meeting its overarching goal of an improving picture for nature by 2030, he argued.

"That means reneging on an international commitment that they've made which isn't acceptable," he added.

"We need to see faster action from the government and not this foot-dragging... because if nature suffers then humanity suffers as well."The concern behind the very public worry about losing hundreds and hundreds of seats is that "we might not yet actually have hit the bottom", in the words of another veteran.

Leader Kemi Badenoch's backers continually say that rebuilding the party is a long-term project, and praise her for managing to draw at least a faint line under the toxic infighting that corroded Conservative ranks in recent years.The broad sense in Westminster is that dreadful results next week won't usher Badenoch to the door. Still, you'd be hard pressed to find a Conservative who'd happily bet their mortgage she'll definitely be in charge by the time of the next election.

That's in large part because in the words of one Tory bigwig, "she was working on the basis that it was her versus Starmer but it's not her versus Starmer, it's her versus Starmer and Farage and Davey".This election is pick and mix, with the newest morsels on offer coming from Nigel Farage's Reform UK. They see success in these elections as "two or three more steps up the staircase" towards power, says a senior figure.