Keir Starmer has claimed a narrative this morning a few prime advisor reaching out for a gathering with Just Stop Oil is nonsense, although the wording of his denial will elevate eyebrows.

Last night time the Mail on Sunday revealed his parliamentary personal secretary, Jess Morden, provided Just Stop Oil the chance to “come in and chat” with activists claiming she was “trying to sell us on how Labour is still driven” by environmental points.

This morning he informed the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the story is “nonsense”.

“There haven’t been meetings and engagement, there was some nonsense story in the Mail today.

“I’ve not met them, my team aren’t meeting them, it’s a complete distraction”.

The Express has contacted the Labour chief’s spokesman and requested whether or not the Labour chief fully denies the existence of any contact between his PPS and Just Stop Oil.

Sir Keir additionally denied reviews from final week that in a gathering of his shadow cupboard he stated he “hates tree huggers”.

The Labour chief claimed he was speaking about having met steelworkers in Scunthorpe who're pushing to go inexperienced with out being “tree huggers”

“I was simply saying this workforce - you can imagine the Scunthorpe steelworkers - they’re not tree huggers, but they are very very determined to go green.”

He reiterated his condemnation of Just Stop Oil and stated the suitable to protest just isn't a clean cheque to disrupt individuals’s lives.

“Of course there’s the right to protest but it’s not an absolute right. It doesn’t mean you can simply do what you like and say ‘there’s a right to protest’.

“It’s always been a balanced right, which means yes there’s a right to protest but you’ve got to bear in mind the impact on other people

“And when you stand in a road, or block a road, when ambulances need to get there - my mum was very ill for most of her life and had to travel in ambulances to hospital and many people watching this will have a similar experience - the idea that you can simply arrogantly stand in front of an ambulance and stop it getting to hospital, I think, is wrong.”

This morning Suella Braverman revealed a letter she’d despatched to the Labour chief demanding he sack his PPS Jess Morden in addition to another Just Stop Oil-sympathising shadow minister - together with Ed Miliband.

She wrote: “I appeal to you now to stop, in your own words, bowing to fringe lobbies and extremists. I appeal to you to behave in the same way both in public and in private.

“That must mean sacking Jess Morden MP and all your other frontbenchers, such as Ed Miliband MP and Kerry McCarthy MP, who have expressed sympathy with JSO or Extinction Rebellion.

“It must mean abandoning your ruinous plans to end new oil and gas licences, and supporting our measures to stop JSO street-blockers.

“And it must mean ordering all officeholders in your party, including your government in Wales, to end contact with the extremist groups.”

“It is increasingly clear to me, and to the country, that Labour under your leadership has become the political wing of Just Stop Oil”.