Just Stop Oil eco-zealots writing Labour energy policy - Sunak

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said "eco-zealots" from Just Stop Oil are "writing Keir Starmer's vigor policy".

Labour has pledged to prohibition caller licences for lipid and state accumulation successful the UK. Some unions person warned this risks creating a "cliff-edge" for jobs.

Dale Vince, a large donor to run radical Just Stop Oil, has besides fixed Labour much than £1.4m.

Labour dismissed the thought Just Stop Oil power policy, saying Sir Keir has condemned its protests.

Mr Vince's greenish vigor steadfast Ecotricity, has donated much than £1.4m to Labour since 2014, according to filings to the Electoral Commission. He has besides donated to the Green Party arsenic good arsenic fixed wealth to biology run radical Just Stop Oil.

There is nary proposition Just Stop Oil person funded Labour directly. But Conservative Party president Greg Hands has called for Labour to instrumentality donations, arguing it legitimises Just Stop Oil's tactics.

Speaking to reporters successful Washington DC, wherever helium is owed to conscionable President Biden, Mr Sunak said "it does look that these benignant of eco-zealots astatine Just Stop Oil are penning Keir Starmer's vigor policy".

The premier curate said: "Not contented with disrupting our summertime and cherished sporting events, they are fundamentally starring america into an vigor surrender.

"My presumption is we should absorption connected vigor security, not weakness and dependency which seems to beryllium the Labour Party's policy.

"They are putting ideology up of jobs, up of investment, and up of our vigor security. I deliberation that is wrong.

"It is simply a wholly bizarre argumentation which says, 'we won't prohibition lipid and gas; we volition conscionable prohibition British lipid and gas'.

"The lone radical that payment from Keir Starmer's vigor argumentation are dictators and autocrats similar Vladimir Putin."

Labour said that Sir Keir had been "outspoken successful his condemnation" of Just Stop Oil, "who helium believes person enactment lives and livelihoods astatine risk".

"The thought that they person influenced our argumentation is for the birds," a Labour spokesperson said.

"The modern Labour Party doesn't bow to fringe lobbies oregon extremists.

"Every presumption we instrumentality and everything we bash is firmly focused connected providing information and accidental for hard moving Brits."