Minister shouted down in Glasgow

Glasgow - Angry left-wing protesters screaming about poverty forced a senior British minister to interrupt a lecture in Glasgow…

Glasgow - Angry left-wing protesters screaming about poverty forced a senior British minister to interrupt a lecture in Glasgow last night.

Mr Donald Dewar, Secretary of State for Scotland, was just three paragraphs into his lecture on Scotland's new parliament when six demonstrators marched in front of the podium and forced him to stop.

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