MP’s call over oil group

A CONSERVATIVE former minister has called for the Prime Minister to consider making Just Stop Oil a “proscribed organisation” as he argued “these people are not protesters, they are criminals”.

Gareth Johnson, a former lawyer and justice minister, asked Mr Sunak if he would consider proscribing the group “so that they can be treated as the criminal organisation they actually are”.

The PM said police have the Government’s full support in dealing with “the kinds of demonstrations we have seen recently”. The Home Secretary may proscribe an organisation if they believe it is concerned in terrorism.