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Police escort Farage into riot van after pub protest
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was escorted from an Edinburgh pub in a police riot van after being mobbed by rowdy protesters.
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Farage hits out at 'yobbo, fascist scum' protesters
UKIP leader Nigel Farage described protesters who mobbed him in an Edinburgh pub as "fascist scum"
Staff were forced to clear the Canons' Gait pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, where Mr Farage was due to hold a press conference near the Scottish Parliament, after it was filled with the chanting protesters.
The UKIP leader attempted to make an escape by taxi but protesters blocked its path and Mr Farage was forced to return to the pub, where police barricaded the doors against protesters until officers in a riot van came to his aid.
Two men were arrested after the protest and Mr Farage was escorted from the scene "to ensure his safety", Police Scotland said.
Mr Farage was in Edinburgh to promote his candidate Otto Inglis in the Aberdeen Donside by-election, but the pub was soon filled by dozens of protesters shouting "racist Nazi scum".
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "The fact that 50 yobbo, fascist scum turn up and aren't prepared to listen to debate I absolutely refuse to believe is representative of Scottish public opinion. It is not."
Farage 'hangs up' during radio interview
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has hung up the telephone during a radio interview with BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland, according to reports.
"Nigel Farage hangs up on @bbcgms saying he senses 'hatred' in questions about UKIP's understanding of Scots politics" - @bbcjamescook
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Two arrests made after protest against Nigel Farage
Two people have been arrested after protesters demonstrated against the UKIP leader Nigel Farage at a pub in Edinburgh.
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Nigel Farage mobbed by protesters at Scottish pub
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was escorted from an Edinburgh pub in a police riot van after being mobbed by rowdy protesters.
Mr Farage arranged a press conference in the Canons' Gait pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, near the Scottish Parliament, to promote his candidate Otto Inglis in the Aberdeen Donside by-election.
ITV News Political Correspondent Libby Weiner reports:
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage was escorted from an Edinburgh pub in a police riot van after being mobbed by rowdy protesters.
Police escort Farage into riot van after pub protest
UKIP leader Nigel Farage was escorted from an Edinburgh pub in a police riot van after being mobbed by rowdy protesters.
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Nigel Farage: 'It was pretty threatening'
by Libby Wiener - Political CorrespondentUKIP leader Nigel Farage had to be led to safety by police after being surrounded by protestors at an Edinburgh pub this afternoon.
"It was pretty threatening," he told me.
"This is not a great place to be, I thought to myself," he said. "But I have been in lots of worse places."
He later tweeted:
Am okay after the Edinburgh fracas but if that is the face of Scottish Nationalism then it's pretty ugly.
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