A man has been cleared of assaulting former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith with a traffic cone, along with two other protesters who shouted “Tory scum” at the MP as they followed him through a city centre.
Sir Iain told Manchester Magistrates’ Court he feared for his wife and her friend when he had the cone “slammed” on to his head as they were followed by protesters hurling abuse during the Conservative Party Conference last year.
