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Rishi Sunak seen on California summer holiday with family | UK News


Rishi Sunak was pictured with his wife Akshata Murty and their daughters Krishna, 12, right, and Anoushka, 10, second from left, soaking up the sun (Picture: PA / Getty Images)

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has clearly shrugged off a security row at home while he holidays thousands of miles away in California.

Mr Sunak was pictured with his wife Akshata Murty and their daughters Krishna, 12, and Anoushka, 10, soaking up the sun in the US.

The Conservative Party PM, who has gone away with his family while Parliament is in recess, is spending 10 days on the West Coast including a stop off at Disneyland.

Before he left the UK, Mr Sunak said the trip would be ‘really special’ as it is his first ‘proper’ family summer holiday in years, and his children were ‘very excited’ about their theme park visit.

The MP for Richmond in Yorkshire looked cheerful in the pictures and unfazed by the chaos unfolding on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean.

His £2 million mansion was covered in hundreds of metres of ‘oily-black fabric’ by Greenpeace activists yesterday in protest of his latest environmental policies.

Mr Sunak announced this week that hundreds of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea have been granted by the government in a boost to carbon capture funding.

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 03: (L-R) Akshata Murty, Krishna Sunak, Anoushka Sunak and Rishi Sunak pose for a photo at Santa Monica Pier on August 03, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. Rishi Sunak and his family have travelled to California for their 2023 summer holiday and will visit Disneyland. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

Mr Sunak said the trip would be ‘really special’ as it is his first ‘proper’ family summer holiday in years (Picture: Getty Images)

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 03: (L-R) Krishna Sunak, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty and Anoushka Sunak pose for a photo at at Santa Monica Pier on August 03, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. Rishi Sunak and his family have travelled to California for their 2023 summer holiday and will visit Disneyland. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

The MP for Richmond in Yorkshire looked cheerful in the pictures and unfazed by the chaos unfolding at home (Picture: Getty Images)

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 03: (L-R) Rishi Sunak, Anoushka Sunak, Akshata Murty and Krishna Sunak at Santa Monica Pier on August 03, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. Rishi Sunak and his family have travelled to California for their 2023 summer holiday and will visit Disneyland. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

He said his children were ‘very excited’ about their visit to Disneyland (Picture: Getty Images)

(Left-right) Krishna Sunak, Akshata Murty, Anoushka Sunak and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visit Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California, during their summer holiday. Picture date: Thursday August 3, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Sunak. Photo credit should read: Emma McIntyre/PA Wire

Prime ministerial holiday photo shoots are a long-standing tradition (Picture: PA)

A picture shared on social media showed four people who had climbed on top of the roof.

They remained there for at least five hours before getting down and being taken away by police vans. Another person has also been arrested.

They have all since been released on bail pending further enquiries.

The stunt has raised questions over how the activists were so easily able to access the prime minister’s home.

Former home secretary Priti Patel said: ‘This raises some very serious questions around how the home of a sitting prime minister has been accessed in this way, to the extent that political campaigners and activists have been able to trespass on his property and physically gain access.

‘There are major security concerns that have to be investigated, and quite frankly the home secretary should be absolutely looking into this as a matter of urgency and raising an immediate review.’

Dated: 03/08/2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's constituency home in Richmond, North Yorkshire is targeted by Greenpeace activists in protest against his backing of a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling. The four protesters clambered onto the ?2million mansion and draped a 200 sq m 'oily-black fabric' from the rooftop. See round-up

Four people climbed on top of the roof of Mr Sunak’s £2 million mansion in Yorkshire (Picture: North News and Pictures)

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond, North Yorkshire after covering it in black fabric in protest at his backing for expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling. Picture date: Thursday August 3, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Sunak. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The stunt has raised questions over how the activists were so easily able to access the prime minister’s home (Picture: PA)

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith added: ‘It’s a pathetic stunt for them to try and do which shows the pathetic, childish, poisonous nature of these organisations.

‘But also how is it that the security doesn’t seem to know how to protect the house of the prime minister – that’s a shocking discovery. There has to be an inquiry into what the hell was going on.’

A statement on Greenpeace’s website read: ‘Rishi Sunak has just said he is going to continue handing out new oil licences and he is on the cusp of approving Rosebank, the largest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea.

‘This will be a climate disaster and will do nothing to lower bills, so we need your help to stop it.

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Greenpeace was protesting the announcement that the government has granted hundreds of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea (Picture: PA)

‘We have seen governments make countless u-turns when enough public pressure is put on them.

‘Let’s force Rishi Sunak to pick a side: oil profits or our future?’

But Mr Sunak is likely to deal with the fallout on his return, while he takes the time to enjoy his trip away.

Prime ministerial holiday photo shoots are a long-standing tradition, with David Cameron previously being pictured at a Portuguese fish market, and Theresa May seen hiking in Switzerland. 

The PM said the American state of California is ‘very special to us’, as he met his wife there while they were studying at Stanford University.

They continued to live there while he worked for a hedge fund before returning to the UK.

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