Conservative MP Bob Stewart guilty of racially abusing activist

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MP Bob Stewart points finger at activist Sayed Alwadaei

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Bob Stewart got into a row with activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House

A Conservative MP has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence after telling an activist to "go back to Bahrain".

Bob Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, got into a row with activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in Westminster on 14 December.

He told Mr Alwadaei: "You're taking money off my country, go away."

During the heated exchange, he added: "Go away, I hate you."

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