Climate change denier Piers Corbyn heckles his brother at rowdy hard-left event

Jeremy Corbyn was heckled by his own brother at a climate change event yesterday, after organisers were forced to intervene and eject a protester.

The former Labour leader was speaking on a panel at The World Transformed, a hard-left festival in Brighton taking place at the same time as the Labour Party’s annual conference.

His brother Piers is a climate change denier and has previously clashed with him over coronavirus and climate policy.

During the event, a protester stood up and began to shout at the panel, before attempting to break through a barrier and onto the stage.

He was ejected by security guards.

Piers Corbyn then stood up to ask a question, but organisers said they would only take interventions from women and people of colour in the audience.

He then began to shout at his brother, and was asked to sit down by a meeting organiser.

One panellist shouted back to him: “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.”

Addressing the audience, she added: “We need to carry on comrades, because we have a massive task ahead of us.”

After the event, Mr Corbyn handed out leaflets that read: “Man-made climate change does not exist!”

Asked whether he thought his brother would be upset that he had disrupted the event, he replied: “I don’t care”.

Mr Corbyn has previously campaigned as a climate change denier, against vaccines and lockdowns and in defence of people who have been ejected from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn has distanced himself from his brother’s comments in the past.

Elsewhere at the conference, white men were discouraged from speaking too much in debates to increase the diversity of speakers.

Mark Ferguson, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, told delegates: "I am afraid, and I am not speaking from a position of particular strength here, there are too many white men putting their hands up."