UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage has been forced to take refuge inside a pub during a visit to Edinburgh.
A group of anti-racism protesters reportedly hijacked a press conference Mr Farage was holding in the pub, accusing him of being a homophobe and chanting "scum, scum, scum".
When Mr Farage tried to escape and hail a passing taxi, the driver refused to give him a lift.
The Ukip leader then returned inside the pub where he was locked in, apparently for his own safety.
He later fled the scene in the back of an armoured police van.
Ukip is fielding a candidate in the Scottish parliamentary byelection in Aberdeen Donside next month.
Mr Farage was visiting to Edinburgh to outline some of his party's policies.
But things went awry when up to 100 demonstrators gatecrashed his appearance at the Canon's Gait pub on the Royal Mile.
Chants of "you are a racist" and "go back to England" were heard.
Severin Carrell tweeted a picture of the scene outside the pub, while Alan Roden, political editor of the Scottish Daily Mail, tweeted that the protesters had shouted: "You can stick your Union Jack up your arse."
It is not known whether Mr Farage intends to spend the night in Scotland.
Scots racism to English, last bastion of the true racist.
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