Dan Jarvis faced off a bottle-wielding mugger who tried to take his wallet

One of Labour’s Shadow Justice team seems to have taken a practical approach to their brief – by stopping crime in the street. Dan Jarvis, who had a career in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment before entering Parliament, managed to stop a potentially violent have-a-go mugger simply by staring him down.

According to SunNation (the new election site from The Sun), Jarvis faced down a man who attempted to take his wallet on the London Underground, simply by saying: “That’s not going to happen.” The Barnsley MP, who has an MBE for his military record, then simply walked away.

Jarvis told the website:

“This guy came up to me with a bottle and tried to kill me.

“I walked into the Tube and the man, who was clearly very drunk and aggressive, came over and said if I didn’t give him my wallet he would break the bottle over my head.

“I said ‘that’s not going to happen’ and we stood and faced each other off for what seemed like quite a long time.

“I had visions of us rolling around on the platform, but thankfully it didn’t come to that.

“I walked away thinking ‘he’s going to hit me from behind’ but he didn’t and I went and reported it to the police.”

Reports that Dan Jarvis put on a pair of sunglasses as he walked away from the incident have not been confirmed.