It's time to 'take out' environment ministers who fail on climate, says Oliver Yates

The long-time Liberal party member wants to take on Josh Frydenberg to start a people power campaign

Oliver Yates, the son of a Liberal politician and long-time party member, wants to take on Josh Frydenberg in a seat once held by Robert Menzies to start a people power campaign not only in Australia, but around the world.

The former Macquarie banker, and head of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, who will confirm his intention to run in Kooyong as an independent publicly on Wednesday, says the challenges of climate change are now so serious, so pressing, that citizens need to "take out" their environment ministers when they occupy the portfolio but fail to protect the environment and the climate.