Cabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse will chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee to discuss how to respond.The Met Office issued its first ever red warning for extreme heat, with temperatures next week given a 50% chance of reaching 40°C.
Meanwhile, a red warning for Monday and Tuesday covers an area from London up to Manchester, and up to the Vale of York.The high temperatures will be especially dangerous for vulnerable people such as those who are pregnant, elderly or very young, but everyone has been warned to take extra care. Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, said: ‘Boris Johnson has gone missing in action again. He’s back to his old tricks of skipping important Cobra meetings.
‘The public will have no confidence in this zombie Conservative government responding swiftly and decisively to this national emergency as this disgraced Prime Minister prepares to party while Britain boils.Daytime temperatures today are predicted to be around 27°C in London, 26°C in Cardiff, 23°C in Belfast and 21°C in Edinburgh.
Emergency bank holiday would be rather nice 😎😎😎😎… could finish packing for my flight on Tuesday.. it will make a nice change for the temp to be the same at takeoff as landing 😬
I suggest a year long lockdown to protect granny from the heat.
It's 24 degrees here. Hardly a high temperature but just to be safe, send more money to the Ukraine.
Can't be that bad because the Prime Minister didn't bother going *sarcasm
Climate lockdowns incoming
Meanwhile in another universe this is what BorisJohnson will be doing.
Says so much about the British population that they need to be told what to do in hot weather that many countries get on a daily basis. There was nothing like this in 1976 as people had common sense.
We know we can trust this Govt to protect the people. I mean look how quickly they got us to ignore SARS! It's only a 'mild' extreme heatwave!
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