A co-founder of Extinction Rebellion was confronted by his daughter over his tactics, a new Netflix documentary shows, as activists say he was obsessed with being arrested.

The film lays bare disagreements within the environmental movement in the wake of its mass protests which brought London to a halt in April 2019.

The group succeeded in pushing climate change up the political agenda, but within months disagreed on the best way to proceed, with co-founder Roger Hallam backing a plan to fly drones near Heathrow which was unpopular with younger activists.

At an emotional meeting in August 2019 his daughter Savannah Lovelock, on behalf of the movement’s youth wing, addressed her father and other members about the plan.

“I would like it, dad, if you could look at me,” she says, before telling the group that the older members had been “denying us agency and voice within this organisation.”

“If this action is announced and supported in any way under the banner of Extinction Rebellion, we will begin the process of walking our own path,” she says.

As Mr Hallam says leaving “might be the right path, or it may be the wrong path,” she storms out of the meeting, shouting “F*** you” as she leaves.

“In retrospect I should have just listened and reflected where they were at. I felt like I had an obligation to do the work I was doing and it was really time-critical,” he says in the film.

He later adds: “My view is that if you’re not in prison, you’re not in resistance.”