Jeremy Corbyn heckled by own brother as row breaks out at climate talk
Jeremy Corbyn was heckled this afternoon by his astrophysicist brother Piers, who was kicked out of a climate crisis talk.
The former Labour leader was the star attraction at an event on climate justice at The World Transformed in Brighton, a group formed in the wake of his leadership which is a hosting programme alongside the main party conference.
But Piers, who believes it is the sun that largely drives changes to the climate, intervened after the event’s chair asked for questions from women and people of colour only.
Those at the event said the request prompted shouting from a man in the audience, who was then removed, and Piers Corbyn, 74, then accused the event organisers of assault.
In a video tweeted by the Telegraph’s political correspondent Tony Diver, the chair of the event can be heard saying: ‘You need to ask yourself what level of entitlement you think you have over this space.
‘You need to sit down and show some goddamn respect.’
She added: ‘Alright, so we need to carry on comrades, because we have a massive task ahead of us.’
Itâs all kicking off at this Labour fringe event, where Piers Corbyn has just started heckling his own brother and is being talked down by organisers.
Another man has just been forcibly ejected screaming about the climate crisis. pic.twitter.com/Lowe9ZJ9UN
Later, Piers was seen handing out leaflets containing his theory that man-made climate change does not exist.
He has regularly spoken at climate science denial events and previously suggested climate change was ‘nonsense’.
Two years ago, Piers branded then 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg an ‘ignorant brainwashed child’ who ‘suffers mental abuse by manipulative adults’.
He believes the root cause of rising temperatures is solar activity which produces natural climate change cycles.
Over the past few months he’s mostly focussed his activism in anti-vax circles, appearing alongside Kate Shemirani, a former nurse who compared NHS frontline workers to Nazi war criminals.
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