London Assembly member Caroline Russell has been arrested in the Brexit protests today in London.

The councillor for the Highbury East ward in Islington was pictured being led away by police after allegedly blocking a road.

The Green Party tweeted to say Ms Russell was defending "hard-won rights".

The politician was among tens of thousands who turned out in protests across the country over Boris Johnson's plan to suspend Parliament.

Her fellow Green London Assembly member Sian Berry, Green Party co-leader, said: “Earlier today, I was speaking at the main rally of the Defend Our Democracy protest.

"I said then that we were calmly determined not to have our rights chipped away. Protest, and direct action were needed, I said then.





“I’m proud that Caroline has been at the forefront, with others, of showing that determination.

“History tells us that all the rights we have we had to win. No one has ever handed them to us.

“And Caroline and the others on the streets in London today were defending those hard-won rights that are now under attack from Boris Johnson .

“We, the people, will come back on the streets again and again in the coming weeks of national crisis to defend our MPs and win our final say.

Show more

“We will keep saying to Boris Johnson, to Jacob Rees-Mogg , to Dominic Raab - your actions do not represent us.

“If you abuse power, we the people will make sure you won’t be in power much longer.”