CLIMATE activists gathered outside Parliament this morning, as MPs returned to work, to demand the scrapping of the Rosebank oil field.

Last week, the government said it will not fight a legal challenge brought by Greenpeace and Uplift against the decision to grant consent for oil and gas drilling off Shetland and Aberdeen.

But campaigners are demanding that the licence for the project be scrapped.

Fossil Free London director Robin Wells said: “The forest is on fire and we’re running out of road.

“After the two hottest months ever recorded, we’re facing down a fiery future of struggle — unless we get urgent change.

“Starmer promised us no new oil and gas licences, which is meaningless unless they come out fully against this carbon bomb — the Norwegian wealth fund’s Rosebank oil field.

“Beyond not defending the case they need to stand boldly in support of its contention: the oil burnt from Rosebank would be a disaster.

“Labour must stop Rosebank.”