Two Just Stop Oil supporters have stormed the stage at the Royal Albert Hall on the opening night of the BBC Proms.

The pair reportedly set off confetti cannons and loudly blew whistles at around 8.40pm.

They then attempted to address the audience, before security intervened and removed the activists.

In footage from the incident, the pair can be seen waving an orange flag emblazoned with the Just Stop Oil logo.

In the background, a man angrily says ‘off, off, off’.

Just Stop Oil shared footage of the incident on Twitter, adding: ‘We Cannot Afford to Fiddle While Rome Burns.’

Activists are keeping busy this month, with demonstrations at Wimbledon, Harrods and even George Osbourne’s wedding.

Just Stop Oil say a Kate Logan, 38, was part of this evening’s stunt at the Proms.

The mum-of-two said, prior to the demonstration, ‘Many years ago I sang with a youth choir at the Albert Hall, never imagining I would one day disrupt a performance here to draw attention to the planetary crisis we find ourselves in. But that’s what this has come to.

Just Stop Oil disrupted a performance and waved an orange flag (Picture: Just Stop Oil)

‘Our leaders and the press have failed us for decades and now it’s up to ordinary people to demand the changes we need.’

‘We cannot afford to fiddle while Rome burns, our children need us to drop everything and act like this is the emergency it truly is.’

Pia Bastide, 29, a community worker from London, added: ‘I’m sorry to harp on about it, but business as usual isn’t working anymore.

‘We can no longer ignore this crisis, when extreme temperatures are scorching Europe right now. Last week, the Secretary General of the United Nations said that the climate crisis is “out of control”‘

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The campaign group shared footage of the incident on Twitter, adding: ‘We Cannot Afford to Fiddle While Rome Burns.’