Man on Westminster hunger strike fighting for MPs to get climate briefing

Angus Rose, 52, has gone 18 days without food demanding meeting with minister Greg Hands

A man has said he is willing to starve himself to death if the energy minister, Greg Hands, does not offer all MPs the same climate crisis briefing that Boris Johnson has described as his “road to Damascus moment”.

For 18 days, Angus Rose, 52, has gone without food. Each morning he goes to Westminster to sit at the gates of parliament on a wooden folding chair, by a blown-up copy of a letter to Hands, in the hope the minister will meet him to talk. So far he has lost 9.5kg (1st 5lb) in weight but Hands has not shown up.

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(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/man-on-westminster-hunger-strike-fighting-for-mps-to-get-climate-briefing

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