Tobias Garnett coordinated the group's legal strategy team in 2019 as a human rights lawyer.
Labour has hired a former Extinction Rebellion chief lawyer who represented activists who blocked roads near Parliament.
Tobias Garnett led an environmental group in a landmark lawsuit that lifted a ban on its protests in London and charges against thousands of protesters dropped.
But two months later, he was hired to become the Labor Party's climate and energy policy adviser and now works for Ed Miliband, shadow secretary of state for climate change and net zero.
Conservative MPs said that this proves that it is. is “a revolving door between eco-extremists and Labor headquarters.”
Mr. Garnett coordinated the Extinction Rebellion legal team as a human rights lawyer in 2019, admitting in an article for The Guardian at the time that her protests were illegal but defending them as “a desperate attempt to pull politicians out of their inertia.”< /p>
He led the group in a landmark High Court ruling that ruled that the Metropolitan Police's ban on activist protests was illegal after they blocked roads around Parliament, superglued themselves to a plane at London City Airport and sparked protests by jumping into subway trains during rush hour.
Lawyer Tobias Garnett (left) led the group in a landmark High Court ruling to ban the Metropolitan Police on activist protests was illegal after they blocked roads around parliament
That prompted Mr. Garnett to tell the TV people he was pleased with the victory, adding that the court decision “reaffirms that when the people of this country gather peacefully to demand action on the climate and environmental emergency, the law is on our side.”
The decision led to Extinction Rebellion's announcement that about 1,000 police cases against its activists would be dropped.
Mr Garnett also criticized efforts to quell environmental protests as “a waste of time and money” and boasted that “direct action like this could be justified to avert the greater damage that climate change promises,” warning of “furnace-hardened ecofascism.” scarce resources.”
But within a year, Labor poached him in January 2020 to become a political adviser to Sir Keir Starmer's re-election campaign before he began his current reign as the party's climate and energy guru. .
He is now one of the most influential figures setting the party's green agenda ahead of next year's general election, including its recent pledge to stop issuing new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.The revelation comes after it emerged last week that one of Labour's biggest financial backers, Dale Vince, who has donated more than £1.5m to the party, is also funding controversial eco-group Just Stop Oil. Lee Anderson, vice chairman of the Conservative Party, told The Telegraph: “There should be no doubt about whose tune Labor is marching to. Their entire energy policy is dictated by the psychos from Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
“While these eco-fanatics line Starmer’s pockets with their donations and whisper in his ear, Labor is plotting to destroy British industry, kill thousands of jobs and leave us at the mercy of foreign powers.
“Labor’s politics is a plan of surrender, and these fanatics will not rest until our energy security is completely dismantled.”
>Andrea Jenkins, another Conservative MP who sits on the Board of Directors of the Net Zero Watch campaign group, told The Telegraph: “This lays bare the frightening reality that the British public could expect under Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, fueled by the revolving door between eco-extremists and Labor headquarters.
“They rub their hands together in glee at the thought that in the pursuit of net zero can undermine the economy by leaving ordinary workers to pay the price while pandering to their zealous treasurers.”
Labor was contacted for comment.
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