Greenpeace oil protesters cover Rishi Sunak's home in black fabric


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  • Thursday, 03 Aug 2023

Greenpeace activists hold a banner while others cover British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's £2m manor house in oil-black fabric in protest of his backing for a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling amidst a summer of escalating climate impacts, in Yorkshire, Britain August 3, 2023. Greenpeace/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) -Greenpeace protesters draped the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric on Thursday, hanging huge sheets of it from the roof as they stepped up their campaign against his government's policy on drilling for oil.

Four protesters used ladders to get onto the roof of the constituency home in Yorkshire, northern England, where they said they spent five hours in what a former senior police officer described as a "major breach of security".

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