Pro-Palestine protester disrupts UK finance minister’s speech
A pro-Palestine protester has interrupted a speech by the UK’s finance minister, Rachel Reeves, as she was delivering a speech at a party conference in Liverpool.
“We understand your cause, and we are recognising a Palestinian state. But we are now a party of government, not a party of protest,” Reeves told the protester.
A protester holds up a Palestine flag as he disrupts Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’s keynote speech at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool
Sixty-four people, including 83-year-old, arrested at Liverpool protest for Palestine Action
Police in the UK say they arrested 64 people, including an 83-year-old, at a protest in Liverpool yesterday in support of the banned campaign group Palestine Action.
Protesters had gathered for a peaceful sit-in outside the Labour Party’s annual conference in the city, holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Merseyside Police said in a statement that the 64 people, ranging in age from 21 to 83, had been arrested on suspicion of displaying articles in support of a proscribed organisation, and had since been released on bail.
