Extinction Rebellion: Johnson calls climate crisis activists 'uncooperative crusties'

PM hits out at protesters for 'littering' London with 'heaving hemp-smelling bivouacs'

The prime minister has attacked the Extinction Rebellion activists protesting in London over the climate crisis, dismissing them as "uncooperative crusties" who should stop blocking the streets of the capital with their "heaving hemp-smelling bivouacs".

Boris Johnson made the remarks at the launch of the final volume of a biography of Margaret Thatcher written by his former boss at the Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore.