XR prof causes chaos at Mayfair hotel

A top London hotel had to be evacuated when a Cambridge don caused chaos by setting off a fire alarms during a conference. Professor Tony Booth, 75, staged his protest at the Oil and Money Conference InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair as other XR members chanted and played the bongos outside. Prof Booth is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge and a vocal climate change protester. Nearly 1,200 people including the elderly had…