Students Break Windows at Conservative Party Headquarters in Fees Protest
By - Nov 10, 2010 10:27 AM PT
Demonstrating students broke windows at the complex housing the headquarters of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party in London in protest against plans to cut funding to universities and increase tuition fees.
The protesters smashed glass on the ground floor of the 27- story Millbank Tower on the north bank of the River Thames, close to Parliament, today as a planned march turned violent. Demonstrators started a fire outside the building, burning effigies of Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. London’s Metropolitan Police said eight people -- both police officers and
