Labour: PM has ‘clocked off’ ahead of UK heatwave

Green party MP Caroline Lucas asked an urgent question of the government reagrding their preparedness for the UK’s current heatwave.

Cabinet minister Kit Malthouse told the House of Commons of the governments communication of advice ahead of the heatwave and that the NHS’s “full operational capacity” is available.

However, Labour’s Fleur Anderson raised concerns about prime minister Boris Johnson’s absence from Cobra meetings, accusing the PM of “clocking off” early.