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Tristan Kirk

Tory MP Bob Stewart pleads not guilty to racist abuse of human rights campaigner

Conservative MP Bob Stewart has pleaded not guilty to making racist and abusive comments to a human rights campaigner outside a Foreign Office building.

The parliamentarian, 74, who represents Beckenham in south London, is accused of telling Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei to “go back to Bahrain” during an incident on December 14 last year.

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