Heckler dragged out and bundled away by security during chancellor’s speech
Chancellor Rachel Reeves was heckled by a pro-Palestinian protestor while giving remarks at the Labour Conference.
The Chancellor is expected to address public finances, but chat about the controversial move to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners has been pushed to the end of the week.
In the midst of her remarks, a man was seen yelling at her before being dragged out and wrestled onto the floor.
Reeves attempted to carry on speaking as the man yelled ‘the economy is a mess’.
The heckler also shouted about the sale of arms to Israel before he was removed from the hall.
‘This is a changed Labour Party, a Labour Party that represents working people, not a party of protest,’ Reeves said after he left.
The Chancellor told the party conference: ‘Why is it that the British people put their trust in us for the first time in five generations?
‘We left no stone unturned to show Labour is the party of economic responsibility and the party of working people. People looked at us, looked at me, and decided Labour could be trusted with their money.’
She said she would not ‘risk playing fast and loose with the public finances’, which she accused the previous Tory government of doing.
It was revealed the heckler was an activist from campaign group Climate Resistance.
He unfurled a banner reading ‘Still backing polluters, still arming Israel – we voted for change’.
Sam Simons, spokesperson for Climate Resistance said: ‘Labour promised us change – instead we’re getting more of the same. The same pandering to the fossil fuel industry; the same arms licences that are fuelling a genocide in Gaza, and the same austerity that sees the poorest hit hardest.’
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