Neil Parish has accused the government of 'double standards' and said the whip must be withdrawn from Christopher Pincher as it was for him
"When you've blown up your parliamentary career for 12 years, you are not feeling in the best place," he told LBC's Swarbrick on Sunday.
"The police very kindly, rightly, took away - because I'm a farmer, you see, I've got shotguns - so they took those away from me."He went on: "They took them away for my own safety - not that I was going to shoot anybody else, in case I shot myself."When you go to the chief whip and ask for help, you expect it," he said.A source close to the whips office said the claims were "incorrect".
"Neil, like any Conservative MP, was provided support throughout by the Whips Office and welfare support after he resigned as an MP including regular contact with his former Whip and various Members of Parliament," the said.
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