Hot hot hot
The Met Office said temperatures may hit 40˚C on Sunday, which would be the highest ever recorded in the UK. The current record of 38.7˚C was in Cambridge Botanic Garden on 25 July 2019. The lowest ever temperature of -27.2˚C was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire twice: once on 11 February 1895 and on 10 January 1982.
Source: Met Office
Cutting remarks
Former chancellor Lord Lamont warned Tory leadership candidates not to enter a ‘Dutch auction’ over promising tax cuts. Here are the cuts they have proposed so far:
Nadhim Zahawi £43.4bn
Jeremy Hunt £39bn
Liz Truss £38.4bn
Tom Tugendhat £19.8bn
Penny Mordaunt £4.8bn
Rishi Sunak £0bn
Kemi Badenoch Unspecified
Suella Braverman Unspecified
Source: HMRC ready reckoner (2025/26)
Top of the pops
The UN’s new estimates project that the global population will peak at 10.4bn in 2086 and that India will overtake China as the most populous nation next year.
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