A Tory MP has reportedly been suspended over complaints about his alleged behaviour at the party’s conference.
Trade minister Conor Burns has had the whip temporarily withdrawn, according to The Sun.
The Bournemouth West MP told the newspaper ‘he will fully cooperate with the investigation and looks forward to clearing his name’.
Mr Burns has not commented further publicly and no details of the alleged behaviour have been revealed.
The Conservative Party conference was held in Birmingham and finished earlier this week.
Metro.co.uk has contacted the Conservative Party and Mr Burns for comment.
The 50-year-old was first elected in 2010 and has previously served as a minister in the trade department, which he was reappointed to last month, and held a Northern Ireland brief.
He was forced to resign in May 2020 after a standards investigation found he had made ‘veiled threats’ to a member of the public involved in a financial dispute with his father.
Mr Burn was found to have tried to intimated the recipient of a letter by raising the prospect of him using parliamentary privilege to publicly discuss the case.
He tendered his resignation after accepting the findings ‘unreservedly and without rancour’.
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