Activist and author Naomi Klein tells Anushka Asthana that combating the climate crisis must be at the heart of an urgent restructuring of politics and the economy. Plus: Daniel Trilling on the shocking discovery of 39 bodies inside a lorry in Essex

The Green New Deal was proposed earlier this year by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It aims to address both the climate crisis and the crisis of growing inequality. It’s a political response that would mean a major restructuring of politics and the economy, and it is one that Naomi Klein believes is urgent and essential.

Klein tells Anushka Asthana she came to understand the urgency of the climate crisis after years of activism on injustice and globalisation.

Also today: Daniel Trilling on the shocking discovery of 39 bodies inside a lorry in Essex.