four people arrested after trespassing on Prime Minister’s property

British police announced on Tuesday June 25 that they had arrested four people who had entered a property of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the north of England, in the middle of the legislative election campaign scheduled for July 4. “Our officers were with the four men within a minute of them entering” on the property located in the town of Kirby Sigston, she added.

The suspects, aged 20 to 52 and from different cities across the country, “are still in detention (…) and investigations are underway”, the police further clarified. A video posted on X by the group Youth Demand – who claims to campaign for an embargo on arms sales to Israel and the cancellation of oil and gas licenses granted by the conservative government since 2021 – shows a young man entering the property and defecating in a lake.

“We have so much to thank the Tories for [le parti du Premier ministre] : collapsing schools, polluted rivers, destruction of the NHS [le service public de santé]“quipped the young man in question, quoted in a press release.

This is not the first time Rishi Sunak’s home has been targeted. Last summer, Greenpeace activists covered it with “oil black” sheets to protest against the conservative government’s decision to grant new oil and gas licenses.