Sadiq Khan has called on the government to commit to revamped climate action and to reduce the UK’s reliance on oil and gas, as the UK endures a summer of drought, wildfires and heatwaves. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPALast month, Burnham said he would be “pragmatic” about oil and gas and that decisions on new drilling would be made “in due course”. “The question isn’t whether Britain will still be using oil and gas, the question is where does it come from,” he said. The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, argues that new drilling in the North Sea could be the answer to the UK’s energy crisis. He said the cross-party consensus on climate action in the UK had broken down with opposition politicians and rightwing populists veering “wildly between denialism and fatalism”, but argued progress was still possible.