A MAN from north London was charged this morning for assaulting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Metropolitan Police arrested 31-year-old John Murphy, from Barnet, for allegedly attacking Mr Corbyn as he left a mosque yesterday afternoon.

Mr Corbyn was visiting the Muslim Welfare House in his Islington constituency as part of the nationwide Visit My Mosque Day.

The assailant is alleged to have posed as a visitor before approaching Mr Corbyn from behind and punching his head with an egg in his hand.

The attacker was restrained by security staff and volunteers until police arrived.

Mr Murphy allegedly shouted during the attack: “When you vote you get what you vote for.”

This led to suspicion that the suspect opposed a second referendum on Brexit.

He will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday March 19.

Muslim Welfare House chief executive Toufik Kacimi condemned the attack as a “disgraceful act.”

The Muslim Council of Britain, which organised the open mosque day, said it was “shocked” by the assault.

The group added: “We are relieved that Mr Corbyn was not seriously hurt and are reminded that this was the same place where Darren Osborne murdered a Muslim two years ago.”

Mr Corbyn brushed off the attack and continued with his visits to local mosques, where he spoke alongside shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, Jewish leaders and many others.

Thank you to mosques across the country for opening your doors to people of all faiths and none on #VisitMyMosque Day.

It was a great opportunity to see first-hand the great work that so many mosques are doing in their communities. pic.twitter.com/6IU2foz22W

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 4, 2019

The incident is the latest in a sequence of plots to physically attack the veteran left-winger.

It happened just yards away from where far-right terrorist Osborne ploughed his van into a crowd of worshippers during Ramadan in 2017, killing 51-year-old Makram Ali and injuring many more.

Mr Osborne was jailed for life last year. At his trial he told jurors that he had hoped to kill Mr Corbyn instead, but switched targets after he was unable to hunt down the Labour leader.

The Morning Star also understands that Mr Corbyn’s constituency office was firebombed in 2013.

As well as far-right attacks, the Labour leader faces a constantly hostile media that seeks to “delegitimise” him – as stated in a 2016 report by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In 2016, a Guardian journalist repeatedly asked a rival Labour MP how he would respond if Mr Corbyn, a keen cyclist, “fell” under a bus. 

The journalist wrote: “If Jeremy did fall under it [a bus], would I be right in thinking the parliamentary party would not consider it the end of the world?”

The sinister article ended with “watch out for those buses, Jeremy.”