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Rishi Sunak tonight promised to give police chiefs 'whatever they need' to crack down on disruptive protests by groups such as Just Stop Oil.

The Prime Minister joined a meeting with police leaders in Downing Street this afternoon in the wake of the guerilla tactics used by the environmental campaigners.

Just Stop Oil have recently brought misery to drivers by forcing repeated shutdowns of parts of Britain's busiest motorway, the M25, including by scaling the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at the Dartford crossing.

They have also blocked key roads in London using a variety of methods, such as gluing themselves to tarmac or slowly walking in front of traffic, to bring chaos to commuters and hinder the work of emergency services.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Chris Philp, the policing minister, also attended this afternoon's roundtable talks with police chiefs.

Speaking after the meeting, Mr Sunak declared it was 'completely unacceptable' that Britons were having their lives disrupted by a 'selfish minority'.

'My view is that those who break the law should feel the full force of it, and that's what I am determined to deliver,' he said.