Environmental zealot behind new campaign
ENVIRONMENTAL activist Rebecca Lush, 46, is the driving force behind Lush’s ‘Paid to Lie’ campaign against rogue undercover police officers.
She has no connection with the firm’s founding, but is described as its adviser on supporting activists and its charitable giving co-ordinator.
In the 1990s and early 2000s Miss Lush became known for helping organise major UK road protests, demonstrating with anti-roads campaigner Daniel Hooper, known as Swampy. Their most famous stand involved occupying trees in a bid to stop the Newbury bypass in Berkshire. In 1993 Miss Lush was jailed for a month for breaking a High Court injunction banning her from Twyford Down, Hampshire.
In 2005 she founded Road Block, a support organisation for anti-road campaigners.
That year she ‘pied’ Jeremy Clarkson over his dismissive remarks on climate change, later doing the same to then Labour transport secretary Alistair Darling at the launch of a pro-aviation lobbying group.