... as she faces down eco-protesters

ECO-ACTIVISTS interrupted last night’s leadership hustings, prompting Liz Truss to pledge she would not let ‘militant’ protesters disrupt democracy.

Five demonstrators from the Green New Deal Rising group were forcibly removed from the event in Eastbourne. One protester managed to ask a climate-related question to Miss Truss.

After the protesters were removed, she said: ‘I will make sure that militant activists... are not able to disrupt ordinary people who work hard... And I will never ever, ever allow our democracy to be disrupted by unfair protests.’

Activist Fatima Ibrahim, who told Miss Truss she ‘should be ashamed’, said after the event: ‘We disrupted the hustings tonight to send a clear message that we are the majority and we are rising up.’