Ellie Goulding wants to enlist Boris Johnson’s environmentalist fiancee Carrie Symonds to help tackle the climate emergency.
The singer teamed up with James Norton and Charles Dance to write to Mr Johnson urging him to increase renewable energy services and ban fossil fuel cars last year, but got no response.
Passionate environment activist Ellie, who performed at Radio 1’s virtual Big Weekend concert last night, said she would “try to get hold” of Carrie,
a clean oceans campaigner.
Ellie said: “I’d love to keep being able to work with people like Boris to push things forward.
“I’d love the UK to be one of the frontrunner countries in dealing with it and tackling it and take more preventative measures instead of when disaster strikes, which it will.
“It’s not productive to just be like, ‘This politician isn’t going to get this done,’ and be negative.
"I think when you’re put in a position where somebody has become the Prime Minister for a reason, then you work with it.”
Speaking in an interview recorded prior to lockdown restrictions being implemented, Ellie said it was time to introduce “overcautious and preventative” measures to avoid a climate disaster, in a similar manner to the way we reacted to the virus.
“I do see a parallel,” she said.
