The eco-group believe they secured the talks after their protest at a Labour event last month
Eco activists who caused chaos last month when they interrupted Sir Keir Starmer during a speech have revealed that it won them talks with top Labour MPs.
The group, Green New Deal Rising, said it held discussions with shadow secretary Wes Streeting and another frontbencher in the aftermath of the protest.
Fatima Ibrahim, the group’s co-founder, said that they secured the meetings “off the back of” their protest during Starmer’s speech.
“We did have a meeting with Wes Streeting and one of the senior shadow cabinet ministers soon after that challenge,” she told Times Radio yesterday.
Green New Deal Rising gate-crashed a speech Starmer was giving about educational reforms, on July 6.
The protestors unfurled a hidden banner and were heard demanding a “green new deal”.
Despite the embarrassment the protest caused the party leader, top Labour MPs are now willing to engage in multiple meetings with them.
Ibrahim felt that the shadow secretary was taking their pleas seriously.
She said: “One of the things he communicated to us is that they are really serious about their climate plans and that no final decision had been made on some of our points around wealth tax, around green jobs and a national nature service, and ensuring that polluters pay for our transition.
Energy Secretary Grant Shapps accused the party of “dancing to the tune of eco zealots”.
He added: “First, Labour let Just Stop Oil write their energy surrender plan, now they're holding meetings with yet another group of radical environmentalists.
“Labour should stop taking orders from protesters, and start listening to the public.”
This comes after Starmer had previously denied Labour links with the eco groups.
The Labour leader called claims that his MP aide offered to meet with Just Stop Oil as “nonsense”.