# Extreme heat warnings extended as sweltering temperatures grip parts of UK

By Robert Palmer — 2026-06-24

Robert Palmer, deputy director of Uplift, said: “Kemi Badenoch’s Trumpian obsession with oil and gas is blinding the Conservative Party to the reality of climate change affecting Britain right now.

“Even as much of the country suffers from extreme heat – with schools shut, trains stopped and people’s health suffering – the Conservatives are still banging the drum for more drilling.

“The continued burning of fossil fuels is what is driving these more frequent and intense heatwaves in the UK. The science is clear, there can be no new oil fields if we want to stay within safe climate targets. Yet Kemi Badenoch’s response is to want to abandon those targets and drill even more.

“Pushing ahead with this reckless approach will leave ordinary people paying the price, through more extreme heat, more damaging floods, and the rising costs that come with climate breakdown.

“Either Kemi Badenoch believes, like Trump, that climate change is a ‘con job’ or she is simply willing to ignore the consequences for us and our children. More drilling will not cut our energy bills, it will only increase profits for oil and gas companies while making the climate crisis worse. That is profoundly irresponsible.”

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