Jacob Rees-Mogg has been chased and heckled by protesters in Birmingham.
The Tory played down the protests as a ‘fact of democracy’.
His appointment has been criticised by environmental groups due to his criticism of ‘climate alarmism’ and support for fracking. Mick, who followed the minister with a placard that read ‘Tory lies kill’, said he joined the rally because ‘I hate the Tories’.Liz TrussHe said: ‘It’s just the start though – the next step is, to balance the books again, they’re going to cut public services even further. They disgust me.’Protesters had stationed themselves outside the Tory party conference RMT general secretary Mick Lynch told the rally that ‘we are in the middle of a class struggle’.‘The rich should be subsidising us’.
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