Main safety issues after Greenpeace activists scale Rishi Sunak’s Yorkshire dwelling
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ajor safety issues had been raised on Thursday after local weather change campaigners scaled Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire mansion and blacked out his home windows with an enormous curtain.
Activists from Greenpeace climbed onto the roof of the Prime Minister’s £2million constituency dwelling in Kirby Sigston in protest at him backing the main enlargement of North Sea oil and gasoline drilling.
They unfolded 200 sq metres of “oil-black fabric” to cowl a facet of the manor home and unveiled emblazoned with the phrases “Rishi Sunak – Oil Profits or Our Future?” on his entrance garden.
Former North Yorkshire Deputy Chief Constable Peter Walker described the stunt as a “major breach of security”.
Greenpeace scale Rishi Sunak’s manor home in protest at oil drilling ‘frenzy’
Mr Walker, who spent 30 years in policing earlier than retiring in 2003, informed LBC: “I am absolutely astonished that they have been able to gain the access that they have.
“It is clearly, in my view, a major breach of security. Obviously, nobody was there to prevent what they were doing and they’ve had access to the roof as well.”
Philip Evans, Greenpeace UK’s local weather campaigner, stated: “We desperately need our prime minister to be a climate leader, not a climate arsonist.
“Just as wildfires and floods wreck homes and lives around the world, Sunak is committing to a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling.
“He seems quite happy to hold a blowtorch to the planet if he can score a few political points by sowing division around climate in this country. This is cynical beyond belief.”
Mr Sunak has defended a deliberate enlargement of oil and gasoline drilling within the North Sea.
He claimed it’s “entirely consistent” with the federal government’s purpose to achieve internet zero by 2050.
Downing Street stated granting greater than 100 new oil and gasoline licences off the coast of Scotland will “boost British energy independence” and “reduce reliance on hostile states”.
But critics have argued it is going to despatched “a wrecking ball through the UK’s climate commitments”.
North Yorkshire Police stated the power was known as simply after 8am this morning to protesters climbing onto the roof of the Prime Minister’s dwelling.
A spokesman stated: “Officers have contained the area and no one has entered the building.
“At present there are four protesters on the roof of the property. The PM and his family are not at home.”
The PM, who shares the house together with his spouse and two daughters, is on vacation in California.