The former health secretary experienced a 'very aggressive and unpleasant encounter' on Tuesday morning, his spokesman said.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting former health secretary Matt Hancock in a Tube station, British Transport Police have said.
The force received a report of a man"being assaulted and harassed" at Westminster station at 8.47am on Tuesday. "A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of common assault and a public order offence and remains in custody," it said., who recently came third in the most recent series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, was unhurt in the incident.
Mr Hancock is understood to have been in the station when the incident started, before it continued on a train.A spokesman for Mr Hancock said it was a"very aggressive and unpleasant encounter with a dangerous conspiracy theorist".
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