A RENOWNED campaigner has been barred from attending next week’s Labour Party Conference after failing Great Manchester Police’s “security requirements,” Fuel Poverty Action announced yesterday.

Guardian reporter and environment activist Ewa Jasiewicz had been invited to speak at a fringe event on the realities of fuel poverty.

But less than two weeks after applying, conference organisers informed Ms Jasiewicz she was unable to attend the event as she had not passed the necessary police checks.

She was then told by the Great Manchester Police that the reasons behind her ban would not be divulged.

Fuel Poverty Action said in a statement: “We are left questioning whether what has taken place is political policing, with both an individual’s protest history and the ideas they promote — including bringing energy under public and community control, and the role of direct action in creating change — blocked from being heard.”

A Labour spokesman said the party would not be issuing a reply as the matter was up to the police.