UK breaks 30C heat record as Burnham convenes emergency Cobra meeting

Britain has entered territory it has never charted before — thirty-five days above 30 degrees Celsius in a single year, a record that erased one which had stood since 1995, and the week is not yet over. Prime Minister Burnham has summoned the government's emergency Cobra committee as firefighters, farmers, and hospitals strain under conditions that are no longer exceptional but persistent. What the UK is living through is not a single dramatic event but a slow rewriting of what its climate is, and what its institutions must become to meet it.