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‘Let’s get them removed’: Liz Truss speech heckled by climate protesters

Prime minister dismissed campaigners as part of an ‘anti-growth coalition’

Kate Devlin
Wednesday 05 October 2022 11:51 BST
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(BBC)

Liz Truss’s first speech to her party conference as prime ministerwas interrupted as she was heckled by climate protesters.

Ms Truss described the Greenpeace activitists as part of “the anti-growth coalition”.

Protesters stopped the speech briefly as they shouted at the Tory leader and held up a flag which read "who voted for this?"

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