UK finance minister's speech interrupted by pro-Palestine protester

AL-Monitor
Sep 29, 2025
A protester holds up a Palestinian flag, as he disrupts British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivering her keynote speech at Britain's Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
A protester holds up a Palestinian flag, as he disrupts British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivering her keynote speech at Britain's Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay — Hannah McKay

LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves was interrupted on Monday by a protester holding a Palestinian flag during her speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.

Reeves quickly resumed, saying she understood the cause and noted that Britain had decided to recognise a Palestinian state.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout, Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill in Liverpool, William James in London; Editing by Kate Holton)