One of the two former soldiers ejected from the Tory conference at the weekend for protesting about defence cuts is to attend a UKIP meeting on Saturday. Cpt Joe Eastwood is travelling up to Salford from his home in Cambridge to be a guest speaker at a North West council candidates training day. The 76-year-old veteran from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was ejected from the Conservative conference in Manchester along with Col Ian Brazier after they heckled Defence Secretary Philip Hammond midway through his keynote speech over his plans to abolish their former regiment’s 2nd Battalion.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 08:39:42 +0000
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