Just Stop Oil have been recorded discussing how their tactics are influencing Labour policy in a boastful secret meeting, according to reports
"Very reluctantly we blocked the roads around Parliament every day for 32 days straight," the Mail reported.
Activist Larch Maxey was taped saying that a wave of action outside Parliament had influenced Labour to declare its opposition to new North Sea gas and oil drilling.Maxey added: "And that suddenly cut through, we were headline news, Labour suddenly shifted and said 'We hate Just Stop Oil, oh but by the way, we're going to stop new oil, coal and gas'.
"It's how it goes isn't it? We have to escalate it again. And we blocked the gantries on the M25, then – we had, throughout last year, we had 138 people in prison, we had six lots of high-level action, which helps people understand the truth."Labour confirmed it would block new drilling licences back in May in a rare declaration on policy from the party which is expected to win the next general election.
"Labour has repeatedly called out Just Stop Oil's tactics as arrogant and wrong and we condemn the disruption they cause." A Just Stop Oil spokesman said: "The Labour Party's failure to commit to revoking Rishi Sunak's 100 new oil and gas licences should they come to power, means that their pledge to end new oil and gas is meaningless."