Just Stop Oil protesters were threatened with arrests after singing “climate-criminal” Christmas carols outside Sir Keir Starmer’s London home.
A group of nine protesters gathered outside Sir Keir’s home to sing re-imagined versions of Christmas carols and popular songs on Thursday at roughly 8.30pm.
Just Stop Oil demanded the Labour leader commit to cancelling all new oil and gas licenses, including those already greenlit by the current government.
Police attended the scene and asked the group to disperse or they would be arrested, the protest group has said.
A Just Stop Oil protestor taking part in the protest said: “Starmer knows he needs to do the right thing for his children, and that is to cancel all new oil and gas licences if he gets to number 10.
“He is a former human rights lawyer, he should know the difference between right and wrong.”
Police have arrested Just Stop Oil protesters 670 times since October 30, the climate protest group said.
Three Just Stop Oil protesters are in prison and 14 protesters are currently under electronic tag surveillance.
The Met Police has said that policing the eco activists has cost nearly £20 million.
Since the protest group’s first campaign in October 2022, Just Stop Oil has “refused to engage” with police when planning its protests, the force previously said.
Scotland Yard said time spent on the group equated to about 300 officers per day being taken out of frontline policing across London.
