Kemi Badenoch has been cut off by two separate protesters as she delivered a speech about Margaret Thatcher in central London.
The Conservative leader had only just started to speak when one woman got to her feet and unfurled a banner reading ‘Abolish billionaires’.
Audience members soon ejected the woman from the room at Guildhall.
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But it wasn’t long before a second woman began shouting, stopping Badenoch’s speech yet again
The protester was heard calling out about the cost of living crisis as she, too, was ejected from the room.
Badenoch responded: ‘I hardly think Mrs Thatcher can be blamed for the cost-of-living crisis.’
Her speech was organised to mark 50 years since Thatcher became the first female leader of the Conservatives, five years before her victory at the 1979 general election.
She told the Centre for Policy Studies, a right-wing think tank, she was preparing to launch ‘the Conservative Party’s biggest policy renewal programme in 50 years’ tomorrow.
After the protest, campaign group Climate Resistance said the Tories were ‘clinging to an ideology designed to stuff the pockets of the super-rich while the planet burns and people struggle to pay their bills’.
Spokesperson Sam Simons said: ‘Thatcher’s legacy isn’t something to celebrate.
‘Today’s Conservatives are clinging to an ideology designed to stuff the pockets of the super-rich while the planet burns and people struggle to pay their bills.
‘It’s time to tax billionaires out of existence and use the resources to fund social services and climate action.’
