Laurence Fox is seen holding a replica of The Gulag Archipelago and a Tesco plastic bag after being launched on bail following arrest for ‘conspiring to wreck ULEZ cameras’ – as actor says he solely discovered he was sacked from GB Information whereas in a police station

Laurence Fox has been pictured tonight leaving Croydon police station clasping a guide about Soviet compelled labour camps after his arrest for ‘conspiring to wreck ULEZ cameras’ – and says officers advised him whereas in custody he had been sacked by GB Information.

Earlier right this moment the 45-year-old political activist shared a video on X displaying 5 law enforcement officials ‘storming his dwelling’ as he was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to wreck ULEZ cameras a day after he threatened to tear them down with an angle-grinder.

Footage posted to social media confirmed the actor smoking a cigar in his lounge as law enforcement officials appeared to go looking his dwelling in south London earlier than telling the digicam: ‘That, women and gents, is the nation that we reside in’.

Tonight, Fox posed for the cameras exterior Croydon’s custody suite after he was launched. 

He was noticed scrunching a Tesco bag whereas additionally holding onto a replica of The Gulag Archipelago by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 

Laurence Fox was pictured leaving Croydon police station this night clasping a replica of The Gulag Archipelago and a Tesco provider bag 

The previous actor smokes a cigar as he launched on bail after being quizzed by law enforcement officials. He advised Sky Information he solely discovered about his GB Information sacking whereas in custody 

Fox stands on the pavement holding up two fingers in a peace signal after which will get right into a blue automobile with a cigar dangling from his mouth. 

He then leans out of the passenger window displaying off the entrance cowl of the guide.

Speaking to Sky Information in a hoarse voice, he took the chance to hit out at his former employer GB Information as soon as once more calling them ‘GB joke’ and mentioned he discovered about his sacking when law enforcement officials advised him in custody. 

‘They [police officers] went; “By the way in which, you’ve got been sacked and there is a great deal of paparazzi on the market”. And I used to be like “phew”,’ he mentioned.

Requested about his arrest, Fox mentioned: ‘They’ve let me go. It is Sadiq Khan’s “make a giant factor out of Loz”.

‘If Sadiq Khan thinks he can scare me, I have been intimidated by his coppers earlier than.’

A spokesperson for the Met Police mentioned: ‘On Wednesday, 4 October, officers arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of conspiring to commit legal injury to ULEZ cameras and inspiring or aiding offences to be dedicated.

The actor holds up two fingers in a peace signal and took the chance to take one other swipe at his former employer’s GB Information calling them ‘GB joke’ 

Fox mentioned: ‘They’ve let me go. It is Sadiq Khan’s “make a giant factor out of Loz”. ‘If Sadiq Khan thinks he can scare me, I have been intimidated by his coppers earlier than’

Fox holds up a replica of The Gulag Archipelago for the cameras earlier than being pushed away in a blue automotive  

The Met Police mentioned a 45-year-old man had been bailed to return on a date in mid-December pending additional enquiries

‘He was arrested in Stockwell and brought to a south London police station. He has since been bailed to return on a date in mid-December pending additional enquiries.’ 

Fox had made feedback on Maajid Nawaz’s Warrior Creed podcast a day earlier the place he mentioned he would encourage a bunch of anti-ULEZ activists who name themselves ‘Blade Runners’ to tear down ‘each single digicam’ in a bid to ‘encourage mass elimination of the surveillance state’

He added he was ‘fairly shut with a number of’ Blade Runners – a secretive group behind acts of Ulez digicam vandalism – and that he can be ‘on the market with my angle grinder’.

Scotland Yard mentioned a 45-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit legal injury to ULEZ cameras.

GB Information later dramatically introduced it had sacked Fox after he sparked a backlash by making derogatory remarks reside on its channel about feminist journalist Ava Evans.

On Wednesday, a video posted on X, previously often known as Twitter, confirmed Fox sitting in his lounge smoking a cigar whereas police appeared to go looking his dwelling.

Within the footage, he says: ‘Look what number of coppers there are in my home…Coming to take all the pieces out of my home. That women and gents, is the nation that we reside in.’ 

The video seems to point out a number of uniformed officers in what seems to be like Fox’s lounge as he sits on a settee watching them, wearing a gray swimsuit and smoking a cigar

The footage seems to point out a number of uniformed officers inside Fox’s dwelling

The actor appeared on Maajid Nawaz’s Warrior Creed podcast on Tuesday – on the Rumble platform – to ‘encourage mass elimination of the surveillance state’

It appeared to point out a number of officers in what seems to be like Fox’s lounge as he sits on a settee watching them, wearing a gray swimsuit and smoking. 

The Met Police mentioned in a press release: ‘On Wednesday 4, October officers arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of conspiring to commit legal injury to ULEZ cameras and inspiring or aiding offences to be dedicated.

‘He was arrested in Stockwell and has been taken to a South London police station the place he stays in custody.’

Later the identical day, GB Information mentioned it had ‘ended its employment relationship’ with Laurence Fox following feedback he made on the channel about feminine journalist Ava Evans.

It comes after GB News chiefs held emergency talks on the weekend because the channel fights for its future following a collection of scandals and report viewer complaints.

Regulator Ofcom has opened 12 investigations into the broadcaster, together with one analyzing the sexist on-air feedback made final week by actor Laurence Fox.

The remarks about Ms Evans led to the suspension of Fox and presenter Dan Wootton. Greater than 7,300 viewers complained.

It’s understood that buyers and managers from GB Information had been in touch this weekend to debate easy methods to transfer on amid the dangerous publicity.

‘It’s crunch time for GB Information,’ a former worker advised The Observer. ‘They can’t simply indulge in notoriety ceaselessly as a result of they do must make some cash and they should maintain the fitting to name themselves a channel for information programmes.’

Final week the channel apologised after Fox attacked Ms Evans, a correspondent for the information web site JOE, in an on-air rant on Tuesday night. Fox mentioned ‘Who would wish to sh*g that?’ and described her as a ‘little girl’.

He claimed his remarks had been in response to feedback made by Ms Evans on BBC’s Politics Stay, when she was accused of being dismissive about males’s psychological well being points.

Ms Evans mentioned Fox’s feedback had been ‘unforgivable’ and {that a} accountable broadcaster ought to by no means have allowed the rant to go so far as it did. In response to sources at GB Information, Wootton was suspended for ignoring directions to cease Fox, which had been being relayed by senior administration through his earpiece, and for later failing to learn an autocue apology on air. He apologised the following day.

The Blade Runners are a bunch of people who find themselves concentrating on ULEZ cameras in London and vandalising them 

Laurence Fox pictured on the Triggernometry podcast on Friday

Fox was suspended for his on-air rant about Ms Evans after her earlier feedback about male suicide. Pictured: Ms Evans showing on the Politics JOE podcast

Talking on the Triggernometry podcast with comedians Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, actor-turned-political activist Fox mentioned he had change into ’emotional’ as he felt Ms Evans had made gentle of male psychological well being struggles.

He admitted the remarks had been ‘crass’ however mentioned he did not really feel they ‘merited the wall-to-wall’ media protection they’ve acquired in latest days and the chaos it has introduced the information channel.

Talking on Friday after his suspension, Fox advised the Triggernometry podcast that he regretted the tone of his remarks on Dan Wootton’s present the Tuesday earlier than.

When the hosts remarked to Fox that ‘within the chilly gentle of day, it [the clip] would not look good does it?’, he responded by admitting: ‘No.’

He mentioned that he had ‘sturdy emotions’ on the present after being riled by feedback Ms Evans had beforehand made when she was showing on the BBC talking concerning the subject of male suicide, during which she known as for a minister of psychological well being for everybody in authorities, dismissing the suggestion of only a males’s psychological well being minister.

He advised the podcast: ‘After I pay attention again to it now, it is simply type of crass. It is the type of factor you’d say within the pub. 

‘I feel I made the purpose which was the purpose I wished to make, which is if you’ve received a misandrist fourth wave feminist who needs males to be terrified and scared of girls, who tweets footage of herself saying ‘I am socially distancing from males’, I am identical to ‘cease’. 

‘As an alternative of dismantling her concepts I simply mentioned ‘I can not consider a single man who’d wish to s*** you, I imply which self-respecting man would wish to s*** you?’ which was additionally making an attempt to be humorous. Huge mistake.’ 

The daddy-of-two mentioned had ‘demeaned’ Ms Evans and apologised, however mentioned: ‘I do not assume it is misogyny or something like that. I feel it is disrespectful.’