ACTIVISTS have gatecrashed an event attended by Penny Mordaunt over the Tory MP’s links with climate change deniers.

The Leader of the House of Commons has accepted at least £30,000 from Terence Mordaunt (no relation), former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), in the last two years.

The foundation has relentlessly lobbied against net-zero emissions policy, and has been reported to the Charity Commission after it was found to have received funding from fossil fuel interests.

Ms Mordaunt also recently received £3,000 from billionaire climate sceptic Lord Michael Hintze.

Activists disrupted the event organised by Enfield Conservatives on Thursday and accused Ms Mordaunt of “prioritising climate deniers over the lives of people impacted by climate change.”

They also demanded to know why she had taken “thousands of pounds from climate sceptics,” before they were frog-marched out. 

The action was organised by the Stop Polluting Politics campaign, which vows to challenge politicians with ties to polluting industries in the run-up to the election. 

The campaigners argue that politicians are abandoning vital climate policies after receiving donations from, and being lobbied by, the fossil fuel industry. 

Sam Simons of Stop Polluting Politics said: “Wooing both Tories and Labour with their donations, the GWPF are gambling with our lives to boost the profits of Big Oil.

“Penny Mordaunt knew about her donors’ anti-net-zero agenda. She took the money anyway.

“We’re already seeing floods, famines and fires. Every summer, more and more people suffer from unbearable heat waves.

“We know that the climate crisis could get much worse. If we want a safe future, we must break the oil industry’s choke-hold over our politics.”