Douglas Ross was loudly heckled whereas launching the Scottish Conservatives native election manifesto in Glasgow as we speak.
The Tory MP had barely spoken for a minute on the Courtyard resort in Finnieston earlier than he was briefly shouted down by veteran campaigner Sean Clerkin.
The Conservative chief had simply branded Labour and the SNP "the horrible twins" of Scottish politics when Clerkin immediately shouted "three jobs Ross" and launched right into a minute-long rant about welfare cuts.
Clerkin informed the room: "1.3 million persons are going to be pushed into poverty due to the price of residing improve - all due to the legal leaders at Westminster, Johnson and Sunak.
"They need to be pressured to resign over PartyGate - as a result of on the finish of the day individuals have died, and folks could not get close to earlier than the top."
Ross patiently let Clerkin say his piece earlier than Tory aides ushered the campaigner out of the room.
Talking outdoors the resort to the File, Clerkin defended his determination to interrupt the Conservative occasion.
"I used to be representing the Scottish Tenants Organisation and our members are being pressured into poverty," he stated.
"The underside line is a few of our members have informed us in current days that they're ravenous and they're chilly.
"That is why I felt the necessity to do what I did as we speak - to attract consideration to the very fact persons are struggling now".
Clerkin has an extended file of interrupting political marketing campaign occasions in Scotland.
He was arrested in 2020 after a stunt at Edinburgh Airport which noticed him unveil a banner that proclaimed "England get out of Scotland" - however the case was later dropped.
In 2011, Clerkin hit the headlines when he pressured former Scottish Labour chief Iain Grey to take refuge in a Subway sandwich store in Glasgow metropolis centre forward of that 12 months's Holyrood election.
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