UK breaks June heat record for third day in a row as ministers urged to act
Plans to protect people fall ‘far short of what is needed’, government told, as MP warns of heatwave deaths UK politics live – latest updates The UK government is facing increasingly urgent calls for action to protect people against the intensifying effects of the climate crisis, as the highest maximum temperature record for June was broken for the third day in a row. With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the ch
Plans to protect people fall ‘far short of what is needed’, government told, as MP warns of heatwave deaths
UK politics live – latest updates
The UK government is facing increasingly urgent calls for action to protect people against the intensifying effects of the climate crisis, as the highest maximum temperature record for June was broken for the third day in a row.
With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the chair of parliament’s environmental audit committee warned ministers of the urgent threat and that the UK was falling “far short of what is needed”.
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