Hawzah News Agency - (Hampstead - UK) - A Camden councillor says he hopes others will speak out against racism, as he faced down a man racially abusing two Muslims on a tube train on Sunday morning.

Cllr Oliver Cooper, who represents Hampstead Town was travelling from Belsize Park to Camden Town, when he became aware of a man in his 40s hurling abuse at two women wearing hijabs.

He said: "It was just as we left Chalk Farm. I was pretty zoned out to be honest. I suddenly clicked that this guy was shouting down the carriage at two women in hijabs. One of them moved down but the other stayed sitting."

The man was shouting to the women: "You're no f**king Muslims, you're not anything at all."

Cllr Cooper continued: "Usually I would have recorded it but I'd lost my phone the night before and was going to a friends to collect it. I told the man to sit down and be quiet.

"Everyone on the carriage did this very British thing of tutting, avoiding looking at him or engaging with him."

However the man who was white and about 5ft 10in tall, turned his aggression towards the 32-year-old.