Boris Johnson under fire for 'Trumpian politics' after protesters mob Labour's Starmer

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Britain's opposition leader Keir Starmer had to be protected by police on Monday after being surrounded and verbally attacked by a small but aggressive group of protesters.

Their comments prompted outrage from politicians who accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of stoking such sentiment in a recent controversial attack on his rival in parliament.

Several videos on social media show a very vocal crowd around the Labour leader in a Westminster street.

Starmer is heard being called a "traitor" and accused of "protecting paedophiles", before being bundled into a police car.

MPs from all sides turned on Johnson over his previous comments, which repeated a baseless slur peddled by conspiracy theorists and far-right trolls.

Under fire over the "partygate" scandal involving numerous social gatherings in his Downing Street offices while the country was in lockdown, the prime minister lashed out at Starmer -- who before moving into politics was the director of public prosecutions -- in parliament on Monday last week, accusing him of having "spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile".

Savile was a popular TV and radio personality who was revealed after his death in 2011 to have sexually abused hundreds of people including children.

In his former role, Starmer was not involved in decisions not to prosecute Savile but apologised for police failures.

After Monday night's mob incident, Boris Johnson took to Twitter to condemn the behaviour directed at the opposition leader as "absolutely disgraceful" and "completely unacceptable".

But Labour politicians and several from the prime minister's ruling Conservative Party linked the attack to Johnson's comments.

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