Update: Tory MP Bob Stewart won't have Tory whip removed despite facing racially aggravated abuse charge
MP has been charged with racially aggravated abuse – but will not have the whip suspended.
He is facing charges of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour “after an online report from a man alleging he had been verbally racially abused,” London’s Metropolitan Police said. Mr Stewart, a former British Army Colonel who served in Northern Ireland and commanded United Nations forces in Bosnia, has been MP for Beckenham, a safe Tory seat, since 2010.
In the footage, Mr Stewart appeared to tell Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, who said he is living in exile after being tortured in the Gulf state: “Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss, go back to Bahrain.”
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