Green MEP for the South West, Molly Scott Cato, is one of three MEPs arrested after breaking into a Belgian military airbase to protest against its stockpiling of American B61 nuclear bombs.

The MEPs scaled the perimeter fence and blocked the runway, unfurling a banner which read: ’Europe Free of Nuclear weapons.’

The MEPs are currently being held in a local police station and being questioned. They are likely to be released later today.

Green Party co-leader, Sian Berry, said: ’We stand in full solidarity with our brilliant MEP Molly and her Green colleagues who have been arrested for taking a stand against nuclear weapons.’

Molly is the Green Party’s speaker on Brexit.