Members of the newly-formed 'Steve Baker Watch' group held a vigil from outside the Conservative offices of the in High Wycombe.

The group consists of concerned local citizens who’ve come together to challenge the Wycombe MP on his views on Carbon Net Zero, which they consider to be harmful to the country.

A crowdfunding campaign has exceeded its target raising over £15,000 in two weeks with donations coming not from across England.

The group says he has "consistently voted against clean, green energy initiatives, and is pro-fracking, which would be deeply damaging to the environment, while offering nothing to help those struggling with soaring energy bills."

The vigil was being organised in conjunction with local Christian groups who find Steve Baker’s attitude "surprising in view of his faith as a Born-Again Christian".

Jane Cahane said: "As a local resident and active member of two churches in High Wycombe, I am very dismayed that our previous efforts to meet with Steve Baker and urge him to consider the IPCC report and the Biblical references to climate change appear to have been unsuccessful as he has instead joined a climate-change-denying group.

"Because climate change will affect the poor and most vulnerable in the world and even in our own constituency, I continue to pray that God will change his mind.

"I hope this vigil will be effective in challenging his resistance."

Gemma Rogers said: “The Bible is very clear that humans were placed in the Garden of Eden and instructed to ‘work it and take care of it’.

"In other words, God made us the custodians of Earth, with the responsibility of acting as stewards of His creation.

"It is impossible to see how Steve Baker’s views on Net Zero and fracking fit in with God’s plan for us all.”

Steve Baker MP recently helped set up the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) to challenge the government’s plans to reduce the UK’s carbon emissions to zero by 2050.

He said: "I see the people associated with this campaign come from opposition parties in the constituency.

"I am thankful for everything they are doing to highlight that the voters of Wycombe will be poorer and colder unless we change course as I am setting out.

"We all care for the planet but our current Net Zero strategy only works for those who can afford much higher bills. if this is what local LibDems and Labour want then I’m happy to explain that to voters."

The group says he has also made life harder for the poorer members of the local community by not voting against the government’s decision to remove the £20 uplift to Universal Credit and doing nothing to tackle the problem of food poverty within the area.

They continued: "As Wycombe citizens, along with the rest of the country, currently face soaring energy bills and the hardest cost-of-living squeeze in 30 years, that will affect the poorest members of our community most harshly, Baker’s words about not wanting his constituents to be ‘colder or poorer’ ring extremely hollow."