Nick Griffin abandons BNP press conference under hail of eggs

The BNP leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a press conference outside parliament today after protesters pelted him with eggs.

The demonstrators shouted “Off our streets, Nazi scum” and chased him down the street to his car.

Griffin, who was elected an MEP for north-west England on Sunday, was bundled into his car by his bodyguards and quickly drove off.

Having arrived for the press conference, on College Green in front of parliament, just after 2.30pm with fellow BNP MEP Andrew Brons, he began by attacking articles from today’s newspapers criticising him and his party.

He had been speaking for only a few minutes when the protesters appeared, chanting and waving banners reading “Stop the fascist BNP”.