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Police were “picking on” Jeremy Corbyn to “silence the democratic rights of everybody in our society”, he has alleged.
The former Labour leader and John McDonnell were called for interview after a pro-Palestine protest in London earlier this year.
Mr McDonnell revealed in the Commons that police had dropped their investigation into the pair, but said the Metropolitan Police had originally tried to charge them because MPs were held to have “a greater culpability”.
