The MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark swore at a Labour MP's assistant in a House of Commons bar and the next night racially abused a journalist in the same bar.
Following the incidents, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle immediately suspended Mr Coyle from all parliament bars.The MP apologised in the Commons on Friday to fellow MPs, his constituents and the two complainants as he said he was"ashamed of my conduct ... it should not have happened".
Mr Coyle said without their intervention he would not have been able to stop drinking - which he did soon after the incidents - and doctors told him if he did not he could have had a stroke, or worse."Their intervention has quite possibly saved my life," he told the Commons. Mr Dyer, who now works for the Guardian, said:"Everyone working in parliament should be able to do so without harassment and abuse.
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