> Hannah Bourne-Taylor, who has campaigned for swift bricks nationally for four years.

The article apparently undersells her role. Clicking through to her site, she seems to have been almost singularly responsible for making this happen:

> For my campaign – for swifts – I have walked through London naked, twice. First to launch the petition (how else would a nobody reach the almost impossible target?) and secondly to the meeting at the Home Office, with Zac Goldsmith by my side in an unprecedented show of alliance, to remind the government that swifts’ existence is at stake.

https://hannahbournetaylor.com/the-feather-speech-campaign-f...

(Probably NSFW photo on that page.)