'Reform's cancelling of climate change policies is putting lives at risk'

The campaigners argued that heat-driven inflation is pushing food prices higher as harvests and supply chains struggle and the protesters claim that Reform’s attempts to erase climate policy are a direct betrayal of the public.

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Protester Derek Honour, a retired vicar, said “The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has brought together all of the world’s leading climate scientists and their research over decades has shown conclusively that the climate extremes we are now starting to experience are caused by human activity.

“Reforms denial of this is at best unbelievably arrogant and at worst deliberately deceptive.

“The resultant cancelling of Derbyshire County Council's Climate Change policies is I believe putting our lives at risk.”

The national Reform UK Party is also considering pursuing gas sources in England which could see a drive to reinstate fracking which is currently banned.

Richard Tice, the national Reform Party’s Deputy Leader and energy spokesperson, has said there is potentially ‘hundreds of billions of energy treasure in the form of shale gas’ and it is ‘grossly financially negligent’ to leave that value underground and not extract it.

Staveley resident Kerry O’Connor, a hotel housekeeper, said: “Reform are copying Trump's ‘drill baby drill’ politics of death.

“Look at Texas, where over a hundred people were killed in this summer’s floods.

“Those deaths are on the hands of politicians who denied the science, withdrew funding and dismantled protections. Reform are dragging Britain down the same deadly road.”