Rishi Sunak challenged to go vegan for a month in exchange for £1m charity donation

Exclusive: Prime minister offered hefty sum for cause of his choice to give up meat and dairy for January for the planet

Rishi Sunak has been challenged to go vegan for a month in exchange for a £1m donation to charity.

The £1m comes from a wealthy donor via a vegan organisation that argues animal agriculture is a leading cause of damaging greenhouse gas emissions.

The donor and Generation Vegan say the UK cannot meet its net-zero target without drastically cutting consumption of meat and dairy, which account for “at least 16.5 per cent of man-made emissions”.