Kemi Badenoch has written to Met Police boss Sir Mark Rowley in a bid to stop a Rejoiner activist from disrupting national events.

Steve Bray was accused of "hijacking" Sir Keir Starmer's resignation speech on Monday by blaring loud music that could be heard in the background.

The anti-Brexit protester drowned out the Prime Minister's speech by blasting the EU’s official anthem, Ode to Joy, while he was speaking.

He previously blasted Labour's 1997 anthem, Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream, over a megaphone when Rishi Sunak called a snap General Election in 2024.

The song is closely associated with Sir Tony Blair’s election victory in 1997.

In a post on X on Wednesday, the Conservative leader said: "Everyone has the right to protest. No one should have the right to hijack national events with amplified noise and deliberate disruption. Steve Bray’s antics are a national embarrassment.

"I have written to Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley to ask what can be done to stop it."

In a letter she shared alongisde the post on X, Mrs Badenoch said: "You no doubt heard, as we all did, the resignation of the Prime Minister being drowned out by the racket emanating from serial protester Steve Bray's speakers.

"Mr Bray's agressive style of protest, his persistent use of amplified noise equipment, routinely on Wednesdays and at significant national events, is anti-social, a nuisance, and a national embarrasment. What does it say about the kind of country we are, if even the Prime Minister is not allowed to have a dignified moment when resigning?"

Mr Bray became a fixture outside Parliament during the years after the Brexit referendum. He was known as “Stop Brexit Man” for playing music and shouting “stop Brexit” through a loudspeaker.

Mr Bray, from Port Talbot, now keeps his appearances in Westminster to large events and Wednesdays, when Prime Minister’s Questions takes place.

In April 2025, he was cleared of breaking a police ban after he played anti-Conservative and anti-Brexit edits of songs outside Parliament a year earlier.

Mr Bray successfully defended himself and said it was part of his right to peaceful protest.

He has previously held demonstrations at the Conservative Party Conference, and outside Boris and Carrie Johnson’s wedding.

In a post on X on Monday afternoon, Mr Bray said Ode To Joy was played “out of respect (at) background volume”.

He posted: “If you were at Downing Street, there was a man with a megaphone slagging off Labour and Keir constant. It could be heard, so there you go. Not disrespectful in my opinion, but you are entitled to your opinion. It was Ode to Joy or the guy with the megaphone shouting all the way through.”