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Julia Hartley Brewer has clashed with Insulate Britain spokesman Liam Norton after the group’s direct action tactics were criticised.
It comes after activists from the group clashed with motorists including a woman desperate to see her mother in hospital as the group staged another demonstration in London.
The group said around 50 people had blocked four sites around the capital on Monday morning during the fourth week of its campaign to urge the Government to insulate 29 million homes by 2030.
This included Blackwall Tunnel in east London, where a woman stuck in the traffic tearfully clashed with protesters as they blocked her journey to see her mother, who she said was in hospital.
Amid blaring horns from dozens of other angry motorists, she told them: “She’s in the ambulance, she’s going to the hospital in Canterbury, do you think I’m stupid?
Crime and Policing minister Kit Malthouse has said Insulate Britain protesters have been slipping through a “legal loophole” but police will be given greater powers to deal with them to ensure they face court action.