Friends welcome hunger striker’s success
'The fifty-two-year-old heard on his thirty-seventh day of fasting that the scientific advisor Patrick Vallance would give a public address to MPs and ministers.'
Quakers have said they are delighted that the hunger striker Angus Rose has achieved his aim for MPs to be briefed on the climate crisis. The fifty-two-year-old heard on his thirty-seventh day of fasting that the scientific advisor Patrick Vallance would give a public address to MPs and ministers. The all-party parliamentary group on climate change said that ‘the event would be held in the new parliamentary session, likely May-June… the briefing will also be recorded, sent to all MPs after the event and made publicly available’.
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