A person has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting former well being secretary Matt Hancock in a Tube station, British Transport Police have mentioned.
The power acquired a report of a person “being assaulted and harassed” at Westminster station at 8.47am on Tuesday.
“A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of frequent assault and a public order offence and stays in custody,” it mentioned.
“Enquiries into the incident are ongoing.”
It’s understood the MP for West Suffolk, who not too long ago got here third in the latest sequence of I am A Movie star…Get Me Out Of Right here!, was unharmed within the incident.
Mr Hancock is known to have been within the station when the incident began, earlier than it continued on a practice.
A spokesman for Mr Hancock mentioned it was a “very aggressive and unsightly encounter with a harmful conspiracy theorist”.
“Each Transport for London workers and the British Transport Police have been incredible and the person has since been arrested,” he added.
“Thankfully, this kind of behaviour is a uncommon prevalence, but it surely’s cases like this that reemphasise the significance of shutting down baseless misinformation which causes a lot hurt.
“Matt needs to placed on document his because of TFL and the British Transport Police for his or her extraordinary work.”