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Greenpeace Representatives Criticize Liz Truss's Policies After Interrupting Conference in Birmingham

Greenpeace representatives criticized UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and her party’s policies after interrupting the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, UK, on Wednesday, October 5.

Footage posted to the Greenpeace UK Twitter page shows the representatives speaking to a group of individuals.

“Nobody voted for fracking, nobody voted to cut benefits, nobody voted to trash nature, nobody voted to scrap workers’ rights,” one of the representatives says. “We needed to take that message and represent the public and actually push for Liz Truss to remain true to what the public has actually asked her and her government to do.”

Greenpeace said it had identified at least seven areas across environmental protection, climate action, workers’ rights, and tackling inequality where policies either confirmed or being considered by Truss and her ministers were “at odds” with the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto. Credit: Greenpeace UK via Storyful

Video Transcript

- Nobody voted for fracking. Nobody voted to cut benefits. Nobody voted to trash nature. Nobody voted to scrap workers' rights.

There's a whole host of things that the conservative government were elected to do in 2019 that they're simply not doing. And we need to take that message and represent the public, and actually push for this trust to remain true to what the public has actually asked her and her government to do.

Nobody voted for fracking. Nobody voted to cut benefits. Nobody voted to trash nature. Nobody voted to scrap workers' rights.

There's a whole host of things that the conservative government were elected to do in 2019 that they are simply not doing. And we need to take that message and represent the public, and actually push for this trust to remain true to what the public has actually asked her and her government to do.

Nobody voted for fracking. Nobody voted to cut benefits. Nobody voted to trash nature. Nobody voted to scrap workers' rights.

There's a whole host of things that the conservative government were elected to do in 2019 but they are simply not doing. And we need to take that message and represent the public, and actually push for this trust to remain true to what the public has actually asked her and her government to do.