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| David Cameron is struck by an egg | David Cameron is struck by an egg |
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| Conservative leader David Cameron has been hit by an egg apparently thrown by a construction student. | Conservative leader David Cameron has been hit by an egg apparently thrown by a construction student. |
| Mr Cameron was in Saltash, Cornwall, when he was hit on the shoulder. | |
| BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said the egg was thrown by the student as the Conservative leader left a college he had been visiting. | BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said the egg was thrown by the student as the Conservative leader left a college he had been visiting. |
| Mr Cameron, who has been followed by a Daily Mirror reporter dressed as a chicken, joked: "Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg." | |
| Carole Walker added that Mr Cameron was unruffled and continued on his way out of the building. | Carole Walker added that Mr Cameron was unruffled and continued on his way out of the building. |
| Eyewitnesses said the young man who threw the egg was led away. | |
| Speaking to young people inside the college before the incident, Mr Cameron shrugged off opinion polls pointing to a hung parliament. | |
| He said: "Polls go up, polls go down. I've been leader of this party for four and a half years, I've been 10 points ahead, I've been 10 points behind. | |
| "What I'm interested in is the big poll on 6 May, when people really have to choose five more years of Gordon Brown - the uncertainty, the bickering, the haggling of a hung parliament - or a decisive clean break with the Conservatives." | |
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