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Prime Minister in sticky situation

A climate change protester attempted to make his point this week by gluing himself to Gordon Brown. Dan Glass covered his hand with superglue and placed it on the PM’s sleeve at an awards ceremony at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night, reports the Times.

Mr Glass told the PM: “Do not worry, this is a non-violent protest. I have actually just superglued myself to the buttons of the Prime Minister. “We cannot shake away climate change like you can just shake away my arm.”

The student from Barnet in north London said that he was given a round of applause by the audience. He said: “I just glued myself to him and after 20 seconds he tore my hand off - it really hurt. He had to give it a couple of tugs before it came away. He was just grinning about it. He didn’t seem to take me seriously.”

When he left the building he tried to glue himself to the gates of Downing Street but had his hand detached by a police officer.

“I didn’t have much glue left by that point,” he admitted.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .