BNP leader Griffin pelted with eggs

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The demonstrators - shouting "off our streets Nazi scum" - chased him down the street to his car.

Mr Griffin, who was this week elected an MEP for the North West of England, said: "It's a very, very sad day for British democracy."

Mr Griffin arrived for the press conference on College Green in front of Parliament with fellow newly-elected BNP MEP Andrew Brons just after 2.30pm on Tuesday. He had only been speaking for a few minutes when the protesters appeared, chanting and waving banners declaring: "Stop the fascist BNP."

Eggs were thrown at Mr Griffin and his tough-looking bodyguards bundled him away through the crowd. The demonstrators kicked and hit his car with their placards before cheering as he drove off.

Mr Griffin alleged the three main political parties were trying to prevent the BNP getting its message across by colluding with protesters, who he said were mainly left-wing students.

"It's a very, very sad day for British democracy," he said. "People should be entitled to hear what we have to say and to hear journalists question us robustly."

Mr Griffin said he was only splashed with egg but a TV cameraman had been hit full in the face. He described the protesters as an "organised mob that's backed by all three main parties to stop us getting our message across to the public".

Protest organiser Weyman Bennett, national secretary of Unite Against Fascism, said: "The majority of people did not vote for the BNP, they did not vote at all. The BNP was able to dupe them into saying that they had an answer to people's problems.

"They presented themselves as a mainstream party. The reality was because the turnout was so low, they actually got elected."