Protesters surrounded the Labour leader near Parliament after the PM's incorrect comment that Sir Keir had failed to prosecute serial sex offender Savile.
Videos on social media showed Sir Keir being escorted into a police car on Victoria Embankment shortly after 17:00 GMT, close to Portcullis House - an office building used by MPs.
Some MPs have linked these remarks to the false claim that Mr Johnson made in the Commons last week, when he said Sir Keir "spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile". And Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who now holds the seat of her sister Jo Cox, who was killed while serving as a politician, said: "These things don't just happen. Words have consequences, leaders have a duty to behave responsibly and politics is not a game."
His refusal to apologise, and partial retraction, made some MPs queasy and was the trigger for at least one of them to add their private letter to those already submitted in an effort to oust him. Instead, he said he was "making a point about [Sir Keir's] responsibility for the organisation as a whole".Sir Keir has previously described the claim as "a ridiculous slur, peddled by right-wing trolls".
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, who was with Sir Keir at the time of the incident, tweeted: "Intimidation, harassment and lies have no place in our democracy."
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