The prime minister was interrupted early on in the speech – while reiterating what the government had done to help people with energy bills – by two Greenpeace activists who unfurled a banner with the words, ‘Who voted for this?’
They were booed by conference delegates, with Truss saying, ‘Let’s get them removed.’
She then joked that they had arrived too early, ‘saying that later on in her speech she would be talking about the anti-growth coalition.'
Later she listed ‘Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the militant unions, the vested interests dressed up as thinktanks, the talking heads, the Brexit deniers, Extinction Rebellion and some of the people we had in the hall earlier’ as those who she thought were part of an ‘anti-growth coalition’.
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