CAMPAIGNERS across Britain will take to the streets on Saturday to demand Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer reject a licence for the Rosebank oil field.

The last Tory government had granted permission to extract the 300 million-barrel field, only for the decision to be overturned this year by Scotland’s highest court for not having taken into account the full emissions impact.

Now the final decision on the development, which campaigners say could produce more CO2 than the world’s 28 lowest income countries combined, rests with Sir Keir.

Calling on Sir Kier to block what would be a £253m cash bonanza for the Delek Group – which fuels the Israeli military as it lays waste to Gaza – campaigners will take to the streets of London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Shetland, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Bournemouth, Penzance and more.

Warning a green light would “do nothing to lower energy bills and send hundreds of millions towards a company that is linked to human rights violations in Palestine,” Stop Rosebank’s Lauren MacDonald said: “Rosebank is the defining test of this government’s credibility on climate change. 

“We know the world already has more oil and gas than is safe to burn, and that the consequences of burning fossil fuels are with us here and now.

“This is no longer theoretical – lives and livelihoods are at stake now.

“We’re asking the Prime Minister to stand by the UK’s climate commitments and his recent condemnation of the genocide in Palestine, to put the UK public interest ahead of the profits of the oil industry, and simply to do the right thing and reject Rosebank.”

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was contacted for comment.