CLIMATE activists blocked an entrance to Downing Street today as part of their October action demanding that the government end all new oil and gas licences.

Protesters from Just Stop Oil created a roadblock at Horseguards Road, London, by sitting down with banners and glueing themselves to the tarmac.

It followed eleven days of continuous disruption this month by the group, which has seen over 337 arrests.

The group has said it will continue until its demands are met.

Student activist Lee Matthews, from Aberdeen, said he was taking part in the action as the government is “not only complicit in the climate crisis, but actively choosing profit over human life.”

The 22-year-old said: “I cannot stand by and watch my younger sisters’ futures be destroyed.

“Civil resistance is my only viable choice at this time, we need systematic change and an end to all new fossil fuels.”

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: “This government’s failure to act on the climate and cost-of-living crisis is threatening millions of families with hunger and misery this winter, and starvation in the years to come.”