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Nigel Farage's Reform conference speech disrupted by protesters after security scare
Environmental protesters disrupted Nigel Farage’s keynote as security removed multiple hecklers and one journalist, while the speech resumed after a security alert.
- On Friday, environmental protesters repeatedly disrupted Reform leader Nigel Farage's keynote speech at the party conference in Birmingham, with security personnel forcibly removing multiple demonstrators while Farage dismissed the interruptions as "boring, boring, boring."
- Farage's address began after a delay caused by a "security alert," following searches beneath the stage by security personnel, with sources inside Reform stating "counter terror cops won't let him on stage" before he eventually arrived.
- Banners reading "Reform works for billionaires" and "Collect £5 million, burn the planet" appeared during the conference, with activist groups Climate Resistance and Greenpeace claiming responsibility, while former party chairman David Bull told attendees sessions were suspended due to "unforeseen circumstances."
- Greenpeace UK programme director Amy Cameron warned that 90% of homes in Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice's constituency, Boston and Skegness, face flood risks, criticizing Reform's climate policies and urging politicians to stop being "in the pocket of the oil and gas lobby."
- Farage joked that ticket prices could be raised next year to "weed out" protesters and addressed allegations of foreign funding for his party, dismissing the controversy as mere "loose pub talk.
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