Tory MP surrenders whip after being found guilty of racially abusing activist

A Conservative politician has been found guilty of racially abusing an activist by telling him to “go back to Bahrain”.

Bob Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, also told Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei “you’re taking money off my country, go away!” during a row outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in Westminster on December 14 last year.

The 74-year-old had been attending an event hosted by the Bahraini embassy when protester Mr Alwadaei shouted “Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?”

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