EXTINCTION REBELLION “bees” glued themselves to the Lib Dem campaign bus today in south London. 

Six costumed activists blocked the path of the bus in Streatham, bringing Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson’s faltering campaign to a grinding halt. 

Ms Swinson, who was talking inside a youth centre, came out to try to sweet-talk the activists.

They challenged her on the party’s poor carbon commitments and environmental pledges, which they described as “empty promises.”

One activist charged: “You have all these plans but there’s nothing to make us believe that you are going to deliver on this.”

The Lib Dem leader, who previously voted for fracking, said she had taken part in XR protests earlier this year with her child. 

But another activist cut her short saying: “Taking part means committing to the Three Demands bill, if you didn’t sign that you didn’t take part, you visited.”

The activists managed to halt the bus for around 45 minutes before police removed them. 

A statement released by XR said the action titled “bee-yond politics” was to remind politicians of biodiversity loss including bee populations at the hands of politicians' “poor, irresponsible policy making.”

It said: “Activists wanted to plant the plight of bees and other pollinators fully in the minds of the next Prime Minister, and to remind them that they hold the future of life in their hands.”

Other political parties were also targeted by XR activists who called on leaders to support their Three Demands bill to tackle the climate emergency. 

If brought to the Commons and enacted, the bill would potentially compel the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency, reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025 and establish an advisory Citizens’ Assembly. 

The Lib Dems have promised to reduce emissions to net zero by 2045, five years off the government's existing target of 2050. 

Activists also staged a die-in along the Brexit Party’s campaign trail in Grimsby today while other parties were expected to meet the bees around the country.