A non-profit group set up to scrutinise Steve Baker's environmental stance staged a 'clown vigil' in protest of what they view as the MP's 'climate denial' views.

The 'Steve Baker Watch' group was set up in 2022 by several of the MP's High Wycombe constituents in response to his perceived 'climate denial' stance and links with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a think-tank that aims to challenge the "damaging and harmful policies" taken by the government to mitigate global warming.

At the beginning of September, Mr Baker branded the group "clowns" after a plaque was erected in High Wycombe's Town Centre suggesting the MP would be voted out of office in the general election next year and had done nothing more for the community than "have his photo taken".

The group staged a fresh protest on Friday, September 29, dressed as clowns outside the Wycombe MP's constituency office in response to the jab.

Co-founder of Steve Baker Watch, Gemma Rogers, who described the protest as a "clown-themed vigil" said: "Steve Baker called us, his constituents, 'clowns' in the Bucks Free Press a few weeks ago.

"We are concerned that he is a member of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a lobby group working to undermine government action on climate change.

"He is calling for a delay in action, which is the new form of climate denial. We are concerned about the effects of global warming and want an MP who prioritises it. Steve Baker Watch have vowed to continue their campaign of peaceful action."

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Mr Baker was a Member of the GWPF's Board of Trustees from May 2021 to September 2022, when then-Prime Minister Liz Truss appointed him Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

In a series of tweets written between July and August 2023, Mr Baker said he had been called a "denier" of climate change for expressing that a rise of 1.5 degrees in global temperature would not pose an "existential threat". 

Adding: "The new head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said that increases of 1.5 degrees do not pose the existential threat that many politically motivated activists often claim.

"We can tackle climate change without hysteria, predicting the apocalypse or inciting needless anxiety in young people."

Speaking to the Free Press last month, he said: "If these clowns won't listen to the UN's IPCC or the Independent Committee on Climate Change, then they are hardly likely to respond positively to me."

When asked for a comment on Friday's protest, Mr Baker said: "I refer to my previous response."