Climate protest group Just Stop Oil says it will halt direct action

British climate protest group Just Stop Oil, whose high-profile stunts have included throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting and disrupting sporting and theatre events, said on Thursday that it would end its campaign of direct action.

The group, which campaigns for Britain to end the extraction of oil and gas by 2030 and has become one of the country’s best-known protest organisations over the last few years, said it