Liz Truss's make-or-break Tory conference speech was interrupted by protestors.
The under-fire Prime Minister had taken to the stage for her first conference speech as leader after the annual Tory gathering in Birmingham was marred by vicious infighting.
Ms Truss had only delivered around 10 minutes of her speech before she stopped and shouts were heard in the audience.
Protesters were hauled out after raising signs with a Greenpeace logo declaring, “Who voted for this?” while the Prime Minister gave her keynote address.
Tory members booed and shouted “Out! Out! Out!” as two people were escorted out by security, then stood in an ovation and shouted "go on Liz, go on Liz!"
The Prime Minister stood awkwardly while they were escorted out and then grinned as she drank in the applause.
Greenpeace claimed credit for the disruption, saying the public voted to climate action but instead Ms Truss was putting it "through the shredder".
In an ironic twist, Ms Truss had boasted there would be more "disruption" to come in sections of the speech trailed in advance to the media.
The Prime Minister sought to rally demoralised Tories in her keynote speech after a bruising few days marred by chaos and infighting.
The hall was mostly full - though not completely at capacity - as the big speech approached, after many members left the night before to get ahead of the train strike.
Audience members applauded when members the Cabinet filed in to take their seats in the front row.
Ms Truss got a lengthy standing ovation as she walked on stage to 90s hit "Moving on Up" by M People - who immediately slammed her for using their track.
Her Press Secretary later said Ms Truss had chosen her walk-on song herself.
Asked what the PM thought of M People' founder Michael Pickering’s comments about her “lies”, the PM’s Press Secretary said: “I don’t know who he is.”
The PM admitted these were "stormy days", following the death of the Queen, the war in Ukraine and the fallout from the Covid pandemic - but vowed to take the country "through the tempest".
"In these tough times, we need to step up," she told Tory members.
"I'm determined to get Britain moving, to get us through the tempest and put us on a stronger footing as a nation."
In an attempt to woo the Tory faithful, the PM went on a tirade about the "anti growth coalition" of unions, opposition politicians, think tanks and "Brexit deniers" - declaring them "wrong, wrong, wrong".
She accused her opponents of wanting to hike taxes and failing to understand aspiration as she tried to draw a dividing line with Keir Starmer's resurgent Labour party.
Ms Truss ranted: "The fact is they prefer protesting to doing. They prefer talking on Twitter to taking tough decisions.
"They taxi from north London townhouses to the BBC studio to dismiss anyone challenging the status quo.
"From broadcast to podcast, they peddle the same old answers. It's always more taxes, more regulation and more meddling.
"Wrong, wrong, wrong."
In a 35-minute speech, Ms Truss pledged to hold firm to her pro-growth agenda, vowing to "take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle".
Name-checking under-fire Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Ms Truss said they would continue to cut taxes as it was "morally and economically" the right thing to do.
She vowed to keep an "iron grip" on the nation's finances - as she sought to calm spooked markets after days turmoil triggered by her disastrous mini-Budget.
The PM said she was in "lockstep" with the Chancellor after she appeared to throw him under the bus on Sunday over the decision to slash the 45p top rate of income tax - which they later U-turned on.
Ms Truss said she wasn't interested in "virtue signalling" or how people live their lives - making it clear that plans to ban Buy One Get One Free deals are dead.
"I'm not going to tell you what to do, or what to think or how to live your life," she said.
"I'm not interested in how many two-for-one offers you buy at the supermarket, how you spend your spare time or in virtue signalling."
Ms Truss added: "What I'm interested in is the hopes and fears that you feel every day. Can you get a good job locally? Is it safe to walk down the high street late at night? Can you get a doctor's appointment?
"I know how you feel because I have the same hopes and fears. I want what you want."
Ms Truss restated pledges to bust Covid backlogs and allow patients to see a doctor within two weeks, as well as bolstering energy security and expanding the Rwanda deportation scheme.
Tory members gave her a standing ovation when she blasted Vladimir Putin over the brutal invasion of Ukraine, saying: "We did not stand up to Russia early enough.
"We will make sure this never happens again."
In a personal moment, Ms Truss also spoke about being "dismissed by those who think they know better" and told a story about being given a junior air hostess badge as a child, while her brothers were given junior pilot badges.
She said: "It wasn’t the only time in my life that I have been treated differently for being female or for not fitting in.
"It made me angry and it made me determined. Determined to change things so other people didn’t feel the same way."
Her claim that she was the first comprehensively-educated Prime Minister raised questions, as Gordon Brown, Theresa May and John Major were among those not attending fee paying schools.
Ms Truss's Press Secretary refused to engage with questions, saying: “My understanding is that this is quite complicated and it changed halfway through and Comps weren't actually called Comps until the 60s or something like that.
“I’m not gonna do sort of pop quiz on all the Prime Ministers’ schooling.”
There was a standing ovation at the end of the speech as Ms Truss promised a "new Britain for a new era".
But Labour said working people were paying for a "Tory economic crisis" created by Downing Street.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "Liz Truss has been a Government minister for the last 10 years.
"She has been at the heart of building a Conservative economy that has led to the flat wages and low growth she highlighted today."
She added: "The most important thing the Prime Minister can do right now to stabilise the economy is to immediately reverse her Government's kamikaze budget when Parliament returns next week."
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said: “The Conservative party conference has been a disaster for families and the economy. Liz Truss has only managed to add to the sense of failure with her speech.
“The Conservatives have lost control of the economy causing eye-watering mortgage payments, soaring inflation and an ever-deepening cost of living emergency.
“Liz Truss is out of touch and doesn’t seem to care about the damage her government is causing the country. The only way to solve this crisis is to get the Conservatives out of power.”
Shortly before the speech, YouGov released polling suggesting Ms Truss is already more unpopular than Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn ever were.
Just 14% of the public now say they have a favourable impression of the Prime Minister compared with 26% who said so between September 21-22.
Nearly three-quarters - 73% - now see the Prime Minister in an unfavourable light, including more than half - 55% - who see her very unfavourably.
