Record-breaking temperatures across parts of the UK caused disruption to travel, schools, hospitals and the electricity grid on Monday, as infrastructure experts and climate change scientists called on the government to plan better for extreme weather.
Temperatures peaked at 37C across much of London and the south-west of England with Wales recording its hottest day on record at 37.1C in Hawarden, Flintshire with the first ever “level four” heat alert in place for the first two days of the week.
Kit Malthouse, the Cabinet Office minister, warned it was likely to get even hotter on Tuesday with weather forecasters predicting the previous UK record of 38.7C, set in 2019, would be broken.
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