Kilroy covered in slurry from “head to toe”
Robert Kilroy-Silk MEP has had a bucket of farm slurry thrown over him by a protester in Manchester.
An attacker emerged from behind a bush as the UK Independence Party member and former daytime chat show host arrived at Manchester Grammar School for Girls for the recording of BBC Radio Four’s Any Questions.
Ruth Kelly, MP for Bolton West, was also hit with slurry before the man escaped.
Mr Kilroy-Silk said the man told him he was “doing it in the name of Islam”.
The former Labour MP was fired from the BBC last January for remarks made in his newspaper column about Arabs.
He described Arabs as “suicide bombers”, “limb-amputators” and “women repressors”.
Any Questions’ host, Jonathan Dimbleby, told his audience the MEP had been covered from “head to toe”.
The MEP for the East Midlands appeared on the show after being handed a change of clothes.
Mr Kilroy-Silk resigned the UKIP whip in the European Parliament in October, after criticising the leadership.
