Top Tory ‘struck’ fellow MP after he ‘accused him of being being soft on Hamas’
A TOP Tory “struck” a fellow MP after he accused him of being being soft on Hamas, it was claimed.
Reform MP Andrew Bridgen says ex-minister Crispin Blunt hit him “on the back of the head” and called him “a b*****d” in a Commons café.
And he reported the Conservative MP to Commons security as tensions boiled over about the Middle East.
Parliamentary authorities and whips were probing the alleged incident, while a Commons spokesman said there is “there is zero tolerance for abuse or harassment.”
The pair had exchanged a war of words in the press over Mr Blunt’s views on Palestine.
Mr Bridgen told The Sun: “Crispin Blunt hit me on the back of the head and called me a b*****d.
“He then just ran off in his blue electric suit. I didn’t see him coming.
“You can’t do that anywhere, let alone if you’re an MP to another MP.”
Over the weekend Mr Bridgen had said it was unfair Mr Blunt was still in the Tory party, when he had been expelled over a tweet ruled to be anti-Jewish.
He told the Express: “A party that expels me on false allegations of antisemitism is happy to keep an MP who opposed Hamas being designated a terror organisation and even claimed it had legitimate targets in Israel.”
Mr Bridgen raised that Mr Blunt claimed in 2021 that Hamas had “legitimate targets” in Israel.
And on Sunday he warned the UK may be in “complicit in war crimes” by supporting Israel.
Approached by The Sun tonight, Mr Blunt said he had no comment to make about the alleged incident in Parliament’s Portcullis House on Monday afternoon.