Sir Keir Starmer had to be bundled into a police car after he was accosted by protesters outside parliament.
The group called the Labour leader a ‘traitor’ and shouted at him about Jimmy Savile, just days after the Prime Minister linked Sir Keir with the decision not to prosecute the paedophile children’s entertainer.
Footage shared online showed the politician walking with colleague David Lammy when he was surrounded by a group of men shouting abuse.
Some of the protesters were seen holding signs opposing mandatory vaccination and the use of restrictions to prevent Covid-19 deaths.
‘Why did you go after Julian Assange, why did you go after journalists?’ one man is heard shouting.
Boris Johnson last week accused Sir Keir of having used his time as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) going after journalists and ‘failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile’, in comments he later backtracked on.
As the scenes this evening became increasingly angry, the footage shows officers trying to protect the Labour leader.
They then decided to get him away from the area by leading him into the back of a police car.
It was understood Sir Keir was not harmed during the incident.
Scotland Yard said two arrests were made during the clashes.
A Metropolitan Police statement said: ‘Shortly after 5.10pm on Monday, February 7, a man who had been surrounded by a group of protesters near to New Scotland Yard, was taken away from the scene by a police car.
‘A man and a woman were arrested at the scene for assault of an emergency worker after a traffic cone was thrown at a police officer. They have been taken into custody.’
Tory MP Julian Smith tweeted: ‘What happened to Keir Starmer tonight outside
parliament is appalling. It is really important for our democracy & for his
security that the false Savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full.’
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