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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 14th of July.

Coming up, a Met Office report says extreme weather is becoming normal in the UK.

But some opposition parties say the government's strategy to combat climate change

is too expensive. Chasing net zero by 2050 is unachievable without making the country worse off.

Also, will the Prime Minister's new pact with France to tackle the small boats work.

People will be understandably sceptical that such a small scheme will act

at this stage as an effective deterrent. And the Health Secretary says patients will suffer if

hospital doctors strike for a further pay rise. I just think this is an unconscionable thing to do

to the public, not least given the 28.9% pay rise.

But first, the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has told MPs that it's still possible to do something about climate change,

despite today's report from the Met Office, which says the UK is already becoming hotter and wetter.

The State of the UK climate report says the country now

has a notably different climate from just a few decades ago. It focuses on 2024, which had the

hottest spring since records began over 140 years ago. And this summer, many parts of the country

have already experienced their third

heat wave. Ed Miliband said this contributed to nature loss with bird species like starlings and

turtle doves under threat. But it threatened humans too. We know heavy rainfall made last

year's harvest the second worst in at least four decades,

costing farmers hundreds of millions of pounds.

More than half of our best agricultural land and over six million properties in England

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