WATCH: Shocking moment Labour conference protester is dragged into a backroom by security

The protester marred Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s keynote speech at the conference.

Labour supporters there to watch Reeves’s speech are seen enthusiastically applauding the protester’s ejection.

Reeves had been setting out Labour’s approach to the economy before the disruption.

The protester could be heard complaining about the Government’s arms sales to Israel, before the Chancellor angrily shot back: “This is a changed Labour Party, a Labour Party that represents working people, not a party of protest.”

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The man was then hauled out of the main conference hall by a team of security guards, but not without a fight.

Reeves delivered her speech against a backdrop of animosity with her early decision to cut Winter Fuel Payments to thousands of pensioners drawing criticism.

But the Chancellor was in a defiant mood as she sought to “leave no stone unturned” in her bid to show “Labour is the party of economic responsibility.”

Reeves also addressed her position as the first female Chancellor, saying she will “write the work of all women back into our economic story”.

She said: “800 years the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer has existed, every one a man. On the 5th of July, we made history.

“Every woman watching this will know, no matter how high you climb, how hard you work, how qualified you are, there will always be moments where you are reminded some people don’t believe that a woman can get the job done.

“Millions of women in our party, in our trade unions, and in every walk of life beat back those doubts.”

She added that she and the Labour Party will “write the work of all women back into our economic story, to show our daughters and our grand-daughters that they need place no ceiling on their ambitions”.

Despite backlash towards the Government’s policy on changes to winter fuel payments, the Prime Minister’s deputy official spokeswoman has said the Government’s policy “remains the same”.

She said: “There’s no change in our position on winter fuel, our focus remains on encouraging more people who should be eligible for pension credit to be applying for it, but the policy remains the same.”

Shadow Treasury minister Gareth Davies earlier told GB News that the Tories would not have scrapped the payments.

He accused Labour of making a “political choice”.

“They have chosen on the one hand to hand massive pay rises to the unions, while at the same time taking away support for pensioners ahead of winter. That is a political choice”, he said.

Asked how the Conservatives would have plugged the “black hole” in the public finances, he said the opposition was “questioning the validity” of the claimed £22 billion gap and that the Tories had had a plan to “make savings on welfare, to crack down on tax avoidance” that Labour was not taking forward.

“What this is really all about is what they always wanted to do, and that’s roll the pitch for tax rises, which will come in the Budget. They’re now starting to admit that. That will harm growth and I thought this Government was all about growth.”