
MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have agreed to be interviewed beneath warning by police following a pro-Palestinian rally in central London on Saturday, the ORIONEWS understands.
The previous Labour chief, 75, and former shadow chancellor, 73, will voluntarily attend a police station within the capital because the Metropolitan Police investigates what it says was a coordinated effort by organisers to breach situations imposed on the occasion.
They are going to be interviewed on Sunday afternoon.
Ten different individuals have been charged with public order offences following arrests on the protest organised by the Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign (PSC).
The Met stated 24 individuals had additionally been bailed and 48 stay in custody.
In a press release, the power stated the ten individuals charged – who embody Chris Nineham, a chief steward on the march, and Corbyn’s brother Piers Corbyn – are as a consequence of seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket within the coming days.
It added that three males, who the power didn’t title, have agreed to attend voluntarily at a central London police station to be interviewed beneath legal warning.
A “75-year-old, 73-year-old and 61-year-old can be interviewed by officers this afternoon”, the Met stated.
The protest got here as Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and hostage launch deal.
A static rally involving a number of thousand individuals befell in Whitehall after police blocked plans to carry a march from Portland Place, close to the headquarters of the ORIONEWS.
Police stated a bunch of protesters tried to march from the rally and have been stopped a brief distance away after breaking by means of a police line to collect at Trafalgar Sq..
In a put up on X on Saturday, the Met posted a photograph of what it described as a bunch “that pressured its method by means of the police line” being held on the north-west nook of Trafalgar Sq..
In response, Corbyn stated in a separate separate put up: “This isn’t an correct description of occasions in any respect”.
“I used to be a part of a delegation of audio system, who wished to peacefully carry and lay flowers in reminiscence of youngsters in Gaza who had been killed.”
“This was facilitated by the police. We didn’t power our method by means of.”
McDonnell echoed Corbyn’s feedback in his personal put up on X, saying: “We didn’t power our method through, the police allowed us to go through & when stopped in Trafalgar Sq. we laid our flowers down & dispersed.”
Corbyn now sits because the unbiased MP for Islington North. Hayes and Harlington MP McDonnell at present sits as an unbiased, after Labour suspended the whip from him for six months in July 2024 for voting in opposition to the federal government over youngster profit guidelines.
Police had imposed a situation on the organisers of the rally beneath the Public Order Act that prevented them gathering exterior the ORIONEWS’s Broadcasting Home due to its shut proximity to a synagogue and a danger there might be “severe disruption” as congregants attended companies on the Jewish holy day.
An additional situation required the rally to be confined to Whitehall.
The ten individuals charged with public order offences are:
- Piers Corbyn, 77, of Elephant and Fort, London
- Christopher Nineham, 62, of Bow, London
- Angela Zelter, 73, Knighton, Powys
- Tessa Roe-Stanton, 20, Starr Thomas, 20, and Christian Adair, 23, all of Brockley, London
- Monday Rosenfeld, 21, of Limehouse, London
- Colin Weedon, 78, of Vauxhall, London
- Matthew Brennan, 44, of St George, Bristol
- David Okay, 40, of Kilburn, London