It's for these reasons I stood. But as a parent I can say, hand on heart, one of the worst moments of parenting is when you realise the buck stops with you. Most especially, we cannot pass this buck to our kids and expect their activism to somehow do the trick while we get on with business as usual. No one is more scared of leaving the job to us than our children. In declaring a climate emergency, Prime Minister, you said that our children feel this crisis in a truly visceral way. You were right. They are anguished. They are angry. They doubt our preparedness to do the job. And I know this up close and personal because up there in the gallery four of them are mine. But just as our lawyer colleagues want justice and change tack to get it, as parents, as grandparents, as aunties and uncles, there's not a one of us who doesn't want what's best for our kids, wouldn't give everything for our kids.