'Uncooperative crusties': Boris Johnson attacks Extinction Rebellion activists

A protester at the Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Whitehall on Monday mocks the prime minister, Boris Johnson. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/ShutterstockThe 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