An LBC caller has said Britain is ‘breeding a nation of melts’ after the heatwave shut more than 1,000 schools and workplaces across the country.
Caller James said tradesmen soldiering on with outdoor work this week were the ‘backbone’ of Britain, while the decision to close schools was leaving children ‘ill-prepared for real life in this hard world’.
It comes as a ‘heat dome’ across Europe has prompted a rare red warning for extreme heat in London, the south, parts of the Midlands and southeast Wales, with record-breaking June temperatures of 40C forecast.
But James didn’t mince his words as he described those
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