Dale Vince: Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests - who is he?

Green energy industrialist and major Labour Party donor Dale Vince has announced he will stop funding Just Stop Oil because any further protests would be “pointless”.

Mr Vince, who is also the founder of Ecotricity, has said continued disruption by the activists would only help “feed the Tories’ culture-war narrative” - as the party has made clear it will drill for oil “come what may”. Therefore, Mr Vince will instead spend the cash on campaigning for Sir Keir Starmer in the run-up to the next general election.

Writing for the Guardian, the businessman said: “In order to ‘just stop oil’, first we need to just stop the Tories. A vote for anyone other than Labour, or no vote at all, is a vote for another Tory Party government - this time with a mandate to pursue its anti-green crusade”.

He also said he wants to focus his “time, energy, and funding” towards encouraging young people to vote, who he hopes will help elect a “green” government.