- Josh Connor, 24, was at the centre of the melee which erupted at UWE in Bristol
- Mr Connor and others yelled chants and branded Mr Rees-Mogg ‘scum’
- His family home is a £300,000 property in a middle-class Nottingham suburb
By Kate Ferguson, Political Correspondent For Mailonline
Published: 14:01 GMT, 4 February 2018 | Updated: 14:01 GMT, 4 February 2018
The far-left protester caught on camera throwing a punch in a brawl involving Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg posed naked in a bid to become student union president.
Josh Connor, 24, was part of a mob who stormed a speech given by the Tory Brexiteer at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol on Friday night.
The university graduate was kitted out in a hood and dark glasses as he started fighting during the angry fracas.
But previously he has posed naked in a bid to convince his fellow undergraduates to vote for him to represent them on campus.
Mr Connor, a middle class graduate, was branded ‘a naughty boy’ by his grandmother after he became violent at the meeting on Friday night.
Josh Connor, 24, (pictured posing naked for his bid to be stuent union President) was part of a mob who stormed a speech given by the Tory Brexiteer at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol on Friday night
Josh Connor, 24, (above with girlfriend Andreea Dumitrache) was at the centre of the melee which erupted as Jacob Rees-Mogg gave a talk to the politics society at the University of the West of England (UWE)
The event was dramatically interrupted as Mr Connor and others chanted ‘No platform for racists, no platform for homophobes’ and branded Mr Rees-Mogg ‘scum’.
Video footage shows Jeremy Corbyn supporter Mr Connor – who graduated from UWE in Digital Communication and Media – swinging a punch during the fracas.
It was apparently in retaliation after his 25-year-old girlfriend, Romanian-born student Andreea Dumitrache, was struck in the face by a man in a white shirt.
Mr Connor’s family home – a £300,000 detached house – is in a leafy middle-class suburb in Nottingham, where he went to school.
The Tory MP talked to students about his life and beliefs on Friday night at the Bristol university
Last night his software engineer father Patrick said ‘I really don’t think I can help you – I’m very busy’ and closed the door.
But Josh’s 82-year-old grandmother Jillian Connor admonished him, saying of the incident: ‘I saw it and I thought surely not. You naughty boy.’
Speaking from her cottage in Kent, she added: ‘He is a very keen Socialist, slightly to the left of Trotsky, he is an ardent Labour supporter.
‘Who doesn’t get cross with Rees-Mogg occasionally? I can’t say I’m surprised, but I thought [Connor] was maturing.’
Connor was unavailable for comment yesterday.
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