POLITICIANS on all sides condemned awful scenes tonight as the leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, was mobbed by Far Right protestors who wrongly accused him of failing to prosecute the paedophile Jimmy Savile.

The ugly incident - which saw police bundle Starmer and the shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy into a vehicle for their own protection - was immediately linked to the furore last week when Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested the leader of the Opposition had failed to prosecute Savile during his time as director of public prosecutions.

The comments - which have been circulating for several years on Far Right websites and have been widely discredited - drew ferocious from two former Tory chief whips and prompted the resignation of one of the Prime Minister's closest aides.

Witnesses described how Starmer and Lammy were surrounded by anti-vax protesters near parliament.

Members of the mob shouted “traitor” and “Jimmy Savile”. One witness said a protester was even brandishing a hangman’s noose.

The disgraceful scenes prompted condemnation and renewed calls for the Prime Minister to apologise and withdraw his accusation.

Former Tory chief whip Julian Smith tweeted: “It is really important for our democracy and for his security that the false Savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full."

Labour’s Chris Bryant tweeted: “This is appalling. People were shouting all sorts at Keir, including ‘Jimmy Savile’. This is what happens when a prime minister descends into the gutter and recycles lies from hard-right conspiracy theorists. Political poison has an effect. Johnson has no moral compass."

In a reply to a constituent this evening, Shipley MP Philip Davies said:"The only people to blame for tonight's scenes are the yobs who were carrying them out, nobody else.

"If the PM were to be attacked by a group of peole calling him a liar, would Keir Starmer be responsible for that because that is what he has called him? Of course not. That would be a ludicrous suggestion."