Ed Miliband: Climate change threatens British way of life

The British way of life is “under threat” because of climate change, Ed Miliband has claimed.

The Energy Secretary suggested that those who opposed Labour’s approach to green policy would be “betraying future generations” by inaction.

Mr Miliband made the comments in response to a Met Office report that found that Britain has twice as many extremely hot days a year than it did at the end of the 20th century.

The State of the Climate report revealed data that show there are now 42 days a year which are more than 5C hotter than the average temperature between 1961 and 1990.

These anomalously warm days only occurred 20 times, on average, for each year during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Responding to the findings, the Energy Secretary said: “Our British way of life is under threat.

“Whether it is extreme heat, droughts, flooding, we can see it with our own eyes, that it’s already happening, and we need to act.”