Title:06 Oct 2022
Britain’s new Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss faced protests on Wednesday when she defended her proposal to cut taxes on the rich and expand fossil fuel production. Truss was speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham as two activists from the organization Greenpeace stood up and held up a banner that read “Who Voted This?” Security guards removed posters from the activists and escorted them out of the conference room as Conservative Party members jeered at them. After the protest, Rebecca Newsom, director of public affairs for the organization Greenpeace and one of the activists starring at the event, said Truss should abandon plans to reverse the Conservative Party’s ban on hydraulic fracking. in 2019.
Rebecca Newsom: “No one chooses fracking. No one chooses to cut benefits. No one chooses to destroy nature. No one voted to deprive workers of their rights. The Conservative Party government was elected in 2019 to do a number of things and not fulfill any of them.”
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