With protesters both outside the conference hall and inside it, Rachel Reeves struggled to keep her composure during her keynote speech on Monday. The Chancellor defended cuts to the winter fuel allowance while elderly protesters gathered outside to condemn her. However, it was Palestine and 'climate change' that inspired the hecklers who interrupted Reeves as she was in full flow.
As she attacked the Tories for 'paying the price of their incompetence', a young man began shouting about Palestine. Another just in front of him attempted to unfurl a banner, but was prevented from doing so after an audience member grabbed it. The heckler was then tackled by security guards and dragged away, just after he added that 'climate breakdown is on our doorstep'. Others in the audience shouted 'free Palestine' and 'stop oil'.
Watch below.
Reeves' defiant comeback to the hecklers was so disingenuous as to do anything but placate anger.
A party of working people? Not a party of protest? You've done nothing but protest for the past 14 years and are now doing the very things that you demanded the Tories should not. Shameless.
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