Local residents join green appeal to PM

MORE THAN 175 residents in Yeovil as well as more than 320 residents in Glastonbury and Somerton have joined almost 75,000 people across the UK to call on the Prime Minister to deliver ‘REAL Change’ by tackling the climate and nature crisis.

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Local campaigners posted an open letter to Keir Starmer, joining hundreds of other letters - one from every constituency across the UK - delivered to Downing Street.

Copies of all 650 letters were also hand-delivered today to Number 10 Downing Street by celebrity chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Revd Canon Giles Goddard, Chair of Faith for the Climate; Ellen Bradley, Co-Director of UK Youth 4 Nature; Sarah Morse, Chief Finance Officer of Triodos Bank; and Professor Dame E J. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at Oxford University.

It is thought this is the first time that any Prime Minister has received a letter from all 650 constituencies across the UK on an environmental issue.

The ‘REAL Change’ campaign, led by the Zero Hour environmental group, calls on the Prime Minister to improve the lives of ordinary people across the UK by taking robust action on the environmental crisis.

The movement also calls on ministers to back the landmark, cross-party, Climate and Nature Bill which is set to be debated in Parliament again on 11 July 2025.