Jacob Rees-Mogg says university protests against him were ‘legitimate, if noisy’

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Cross-party MPs criticise protesters who waved Palestinian flags and shouted at former Tory minister who was flanked by security

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the protests against him at Cardiff University were “legitimate and peaceful, if noisy” after he was chased off campus on Friday, as the incident received cross-party condemnation from elsewhere.

Footage showed the Conservative MP being followed by a small number of shouting demonstrators as he was escorted into a waiting car by eight security guards after speaking the university’s Conservative society.

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