Greenpeace defends scaling Rishi Sunak's constituency home
Greenpeace has defended its anti-oil protest following criticism of a "major security breach" at Rishi Sunak's constituency home in North Yorkshire. Will McCallum, Co-Executive Director of the campaign group says the prime minister is "playing with our future" after he signed off on 100 new licences for further development of North Sea oil and gas. Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The police arrived pretty soon after we'd unfold the banners sending this message to Rishi Sunak
00:05 and then after a while our climbers came down and as usual they very calmly were arrested by the police
00:10 and they're on their way back to the office right now.
00:12 The family were on holiday so our message was really to the public.
00:16 Our message was that this is the home of a man who has made a decision that is playing with our future
00:22 and we have to be able to hold our politicians accountable.
00:25 All of our protests at Greenpeace in our 52 years remain peaceful and there was no exception yesterday.
00:30 We took every precaution to make sure the family were away but this is an urgent message.
00:35 We are already facing disruption up and down the country as a result of climate change
00:39 and more and more extreme weather events. We have to see politicians take this threat seriously.