Andrew Bridgen: MP claims he was slapped on the head in Portcullis House
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Conservative MP Crispin Blunt says the allegation from Mr Bridgen is "not correct".

The Tories just cannot stop themselves from literally attacking each other.

Could be another byelection, but even on current form I don’t see Labour or the Lib Dems flipping Reigate:

  • Aside from defections, it’s been Conservative since 1910
  • Crispin Blunt has been MP since 1997
  • He’s won a majority of votes cast in the last four general elections
  • Noit@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if this has to go through the IEP process as Bone did? If so it might be a while before we see any movement towards a suspension. Sounds fairly cut and dry though.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, I believe so. If he’s right about the witnesses and they back him up, it should be quite a quick process, though.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen has reported a fellow member to parliamentary authorities for allegedly slapping him on the back of the head.

    Mr Bridgen, who joined the Reclaim Party after being kicked out of the Conservatives, demanded that Tory Crispin Blunt apologises for the “chop” in Parliament on Monday.

    Mr Bridgen also claimed the Reigate MP called him a “bastard”.

    He told the PA news agency he believed the incident was “completely unprovoked”, apart from him having questioned to a newspaper why he had the whip removed by the Tories but Mr Blunt had not for past comments about Hamas.

    He told the PA news agency: "I was sitting at one of the round tables in Portcullis House and he went by the back of me and hit me on the back of the head with his hand and said, ‘You’re a bastard’ and then legged it off.

    A Parliamentary spokesperson said: "The Behaviour Code makes clear the standards of behaviour expected of everyone in Parliament - whether MPs, staff, members’ staff, members of the House of Lords, press, contractors or visitors.

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