'This should never have been allowed to happen,' he said. He said the local police station is just three and a half miles away, which is three or four minutes drive in a police car.

North Yorkshire Police should have been there.'

Mr Ramm said there are 'really serious questions' for North Yorkshire Police and Mr Sunak himself, saying: 'We're all entitled to protect our property and I think that had Mr Sunak had some alarm, some cameras, a proper risk assessment being conducted on the premises, as soon as somebody entered those grounds at 8am this morning. We've just spoken on Sky News to a former head commander of specialist operations at Scotland Yard, Roy Ramm, who said there is a real risk that bad actors saw how vulnerable the prime minister's own home is and the homes of MPs could now become targets.įour people have been arrested after scaling the roof of Rishi Sunak's constituency home this morning in protest at oil and gas expansion. “This is against the law and rightly the police are taking enforcement action - the prime minister’s home and family should never be targeted in this way.'Ĭonservative MPs have also expressed security concerns in the wake of the protest.Įarlier, Alicia Kearns said while the actions of politicians should rightly be scrutinised it is not fair for their family homes 'to come under assault'.Īnd Brendan Clarke-Smith said MPs have enough to worry about in terms of security 'without extremist groups and their spoilt activists pulling stunts like this'. The stunt was in protest over Mr Sunak's plan to extend north sea oil drilling - something Labour is against.īut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'Targeting someone’s home like this is disgraceful and totally unacceptable. Labour has called the Greenpeace protest at Rishi Sunak's family home 'disgraceful and unacceptable'.Īs we have been reporting, five arrests have been made after climate activists scaled the roof of the prime minister's house in Yorkshire while he was away on holiday.

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