Jacob Rees-Mogg booed by protesters outside Tory conference

Jacob Rees-Mogg was booed and heckled by furious protesters shouting 'Tory scum' as he made his way to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

The Business Secretary was escorted by several police officers as he walked through Victoria Square, which is just around the corner from his annual party gathering at the nearby International Convention Center.

Mr. Rees-Mogg was chased by angry demonstrators who jeered and booed, some shouting at him "conservative scum" as officers remained close to the MP for North East Somerset.

The gathered protesters are furious against Liz Truss' economic plan and carry signs reading "unelected, unaccountable, unbalanced" and "wages up, bills down, conservatives out".

Mick, who followed the Minister with a sign that read 'Tory lies kill', said he joined the rally because 'I hate Tories'.

The 58-year-old from Birmingham, who n didn't want to give his last name, described Ms. Truss' mini-budget as "disastrous for normal people".

He said: "This is just the beginning, the next step that is to say, to balance the books again, they are going to cut public services even more. They disgust me."

Other protests Estants also expressed anger over the government's decision to scrap the top income tax rate for the country's highest earners during the cost of living crisis.

A smiling Jacob Rees-Mogg surrounded by police drives through protesters in Birmingham

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Jane Elledge, 53 year-old computer trainer from Bromsgrove said: “Enough is really enough.

"We've had Brexit, we've had falling standards, we've had people who have to work two jobs, people who are starving, people who have no heat, and the kind of straw that breaks the camel's back is the announcement of the richest people getting a tax cut.

"The trickle-down economy doesn't work. We get nothing - nothing for workers. This needs to stop. Tories out."

As speakers took the stage, protesters chanted "Conservatives not welcome here" and "Tory scum out of Brum".

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told the protest that "we are in the midst of a class struggle".

"We are paying taxes to support our people and not to subsidize the rich. The rich should subsidize us," he told protesters gathered in the city center, where the Tory conference was beginning.

< p>Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union addresses the crowd at the a rally in Victoria Square outside the Conservative Party annual conference

“Ordinary men and women need to understand that we are in the midst of a class struggle now.

He also said the past six months had shown "the decadence and corruption of the ruling class" and that the government was "acting in the interest of their people".

< p>To cheers, he said, "We're going to change this country, we're going to change society."

Organized by the People's Assembly campaign group, he was part of a wave of protests sweeping the country amid rising energy costs and falling living standards.

Despite the police escort, Mr Rees-Mogg played down the p as a 'made democracy'.

Speaking to Sky News, he said: 'There have been protests at Tory conferences since time immemorial, this is nothing new.< /p>

"It's a fact of democracy. They're shouting but it's perfectly peaceful.

And the right to peaceful expression of your opinion is fundamental to our constitution."

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