Nick Clegg was heckled when he came to Surbiton to support Ed Davey in his election campaign yesterday.

The protesters from the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) gathered outside The Grove pub in Maple Road, where Mr Davey and Mr Clegg had been meeting supporters and press. 

As they left a small group of TUSC members, who had been denied entry to the pub by police, chanted “Nick Clegg lied to me, he said uni would be free”. 

Mr Clegg and Mr Davey ignored the group and continued talking to the Liberal Democrat supporters who had also gathered.

Gabby Thorpe, who said she is standing as the TUSC candidate in one of Kingston's upcoming council by-elections, said: “We came here today because Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are going around saying the Tories did this and the Tories did that but they have been in bed with them for the last five years.

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Lib Dem supporters gathered in the pub garden 

“I have cerebral palsy and I can’t afford to go to uni or rent a house now.

“We think it’s unfair that normal working people are being trodden down by those in power.”

Mr Davey told supporters who had gathered in the pub garden that he had been very proud of the way he had fought against 'Conservative Party cuts' in the borough.

He said he was especially proud of his campaign to save Kingston Hospital’s A&E unit and his ambition to get Surbiton and Kingston stations rezoned..

He said: “Almost everyone now agrees we should be rezoned.

"The only person getting in the way is George Osborne who refuses to release the money to make it happen.”

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