Boris Johnson has missed multiple emergency Cabinet meetings on the U.K.'s dangerous heat wave. He skipped one of them planning a thank you party for supporters at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat.
, indicating the risk of "serious illness or danger to life” even for healthy individuals who are not most at risk during heat waves.
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner accused Johnson on Saturday of being "missing in action," the Guardian reported. London Mayor Sadiq Khan accused Johnson on Monday of "treating the British public with contempt" and called on him to immediately step down, per the Guardian.
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