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Article: Hogg refuses to talk on BSE with farmers

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The Independent (London, England)
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October 3, 1996
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Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg was mobbed yesterday by angry farmers after refusing to discuss the BSE crisis.

More than 500 placard-waving farmers barricaded him in the building where he was holding a news conference at the South West Dairy show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.

For 20 minutes he was virtually held prisoner while the farmers chanted "Hogg out, Hogg out". He only escaped after police reinforcements were drafted in to escort him through the hostile crowd. A police spokesman said: "There was some jostling, but the minster is safe and well and his schedule was not interrupted." A National Farmers' Union spokesman replied: "We are calling for the resignation of Douglas Hogg ...

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