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Inquiry launched after man collides with David Cameron

ITV News has obtained footage of a man colliding with David Cameron in a Leeds street.

West Yorkshire Police say a 28-year-old man was briefly arrested but was released shortly after, saying the incident was "nothing sinister."

The Metropolitan Police and West Yorkshire Police have since announced they will conduct a review of the "incident" in Leeds when the Prime Minister was approached by a man as he left the Civic Hall, Scotland Yard said

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Runner who collided with PM says 'I did not see him'

A runner who collided with the Prime Minister prompting security concerns has told the BBC he "did not see him."

Jogger Dean Farley who collided with the PM says he 'did not see David Cameron'. Credit: SWNS

Dean Farley said: "I didn't see David Cameron. I didn't know it was David Cameron until they let me out of the police van an hour later and told me what I'd actually done."

He said he asked the officers repeatedly what he had done as he was detained in the van and one officer said to him: "You know what you've done, be quiet."

"I gathered I'd run into somebody quite important but I couldn't know it was David Cameron. It begs the question, how good is Cameron's security if I managed to run between it before they stopped me?", Mr Farley added.

Mr Farley denied the collision was some sort of protest, adding that he was "not a particularly political-minded person".

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