limate change campaigners scaled Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire mansion and blacked out his windows with a giant curtain on Thursday morning.
Activists from Greenpeace climbed onto the roof of the Prime Minister’s £2million constituency home in Kirby Sigston in protest at him backing the major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling.
They unfolded 200 sq metres of “oil-black fabric” to cover a side of the manor house .
A banner emblazoned with the words “Rishi Sunak – Oil Profits or Our Future?” was held up on his front lawn.
Philip Evans, Greenpeace UK’s climate campaigner, said: “We desperately need our prime minister to be a climate leader, not a climate arsonist.”
Greenpeace scale Rishi Sunak’s manor house in protest at oil drilling ‘frenzy’
Mr Sunak has defended a planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
He claimed it is “entirely consistent” with the government’s goal to reach net zero by 2050.
Downing Street said granting more than 100 new oil and gas licences off the coast of Scotland will “boost British energy independence” and “reduce reliance on hostile states”.
But critics have argued it will sent “a wrecking ball through the UK’s climate commitments”.
North Yorkshire Police said they were called just after 8am this morning to protesters climbing onto the roof of the Prime Minister’s home.
A spokesman said: “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 home with his wife and two daughters, is on holiday in California.