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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Call for Tory MP who posted vile attack on woman over mental health to be suspended

A woman who was targed by a Tory MP after posting about her mental health has called for him to be suspended after the party failed to condemn him.

Tan Smith, 38, was stunned after Brendan Clarke-Smith sarcastically said he was "playing the world's smallest violin" after she praised the Samaritans on Twitter.

It came after she thanked a "kind" volunteer at Glastonbury for helping her when she was struggling with her mental health at the Glastonbury Festival.

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