Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
A protestor storms the stage and throws glitter over Keir Starmer during his speech on the third day of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.As shocked activists and MPs looked on, he then shouted: “True democracy is citizen-led.The man was eventually tackled by security guards, who dragged him off the stage.
Starmer had to take off his jacket, which was covered in glitter, before finally starting his speech.“Protest or power, that’s why we’ve changed,” he added to loud cheers.Asked about the incident on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Starmer said: “This conference is our chance to put the positive case for Labour, so I was absolutely determined in my own mind ‘I’m not going to let this idiot ruin four hard years of work by me and my team’.
“And that’s why I took my jacket off, rolled my sleeves up and got on with it, notwithstanding the bits of glitter which were still stuck to my shirt and to my hands.”Campaign group People Demand Democracy later said they were behind the protest and posted a video of the incident on X . They said: “We demand a fair proportional voting system and a permanent legally-binding national House of Citizens, selected by democratic lottery to tackle the major crises facing the UK: inequality, corrupt politics, climate and so on.”We demand a fair proportional voting system and a permanent legally-binding national House of Citizens, selected by democratic lottery to tackle the major crises facing the UK: inequality, corrupt politics, climate and so on.
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