Hottest UK June on record

Commenting on the Met Office report confirming that last June was the hottest ever for the UK and a whole 0.9C above the previous record, Mel Evans, Greenpeace UK’s head of climate, said:

“Temperature records are falling like domino tiles as our addiction to fossil fuels keeps cooking the planet. Yet while the dashboard is ablaze with flashing red lights, the prime minister somehow still manages to remain asleep at the wheel. According to his own advisers, Rishi Sunak’s government is failing on climate action right across the board. If the heatwaves, droughts and wildfires raging around the world aren’t enough to shake Sunak out of his complacency, people will be wondering what on earth will. We can’t tackle this huge threat without a massive government effort to fix our energy-wasting homes, turbocharge renewables, upgrade our power grid and clean up our transport sector. All of this needs a prime minister leading from the front, but Sunak is skulking somewhere in the rear.”