MP threat as he confronts fare dodgers

SHADOW Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick was threatened as he challenged an alleged fare dodger on the London Underground in a video blasting the breakdown of law and order.

- By Michael Knowles

Filming at the Tube station in Stratford, East London, Mr Jenrick spoke to a man who had walked through a ticket gate, asking him: “Do you think it’s all right not to pay?”

The man continued walking, but the Tory MP persisted: “Why don’t you go back and pay?”

The man then swore at him and said: “I’m warning you now, move.”

Mr Jenrick hit back: “You what? You're carrying a knife, did you say?”

Sources close to the former minister could not confirm the man was

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carrying a knife, but claimed he muttered something about being armed.