James Goddard enjoys pint with supporters at central London pub as Brexit campaigner 'released on bail after arrest over incident in Westminster'

James Goddard has a drink at a pub in Holborn after being 'released on bail'
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Ella Wills13 January 2019

A leading 'yellow vest' Brexit campaigner was released on bail yesterday after being arrested on a public order offence relating to an incident in Westminster, according to multiple reports.

James Goddard was pictured surrounded by supporters at a pub in Holborn, London, after being released from a police station on Saturday.

The activist told supports in the pub that he was given two hours to leave the capital as a condition of his release on bail, the Mirror reports.

The Metropolitan Police said a man in his 30s who was arrested outside St James Park Tube station has been released on bail until early February.

James Goddard speaks to supporters
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The man, who has not been charged, was arrested at around 11.45am on Saturday and taken to a central London police station.

Officers earlier confirmed the man was arrested on suspicion of public order offences that allegedly took place on Monday, January 7.

Tory MP Anna Soubry, a prominent supporter of a second EU referendum, was taunted as she was interviewed in Westminster on Monday.

The remainer MP was then harangued by a group of men as she made her way back to Parliament.

More than 50 MPs wrote to the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick to express "serious concerns" about the "deteriorating public order and security situation" in Westminster following the incident.

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