Tory MP Julian Knight Has Whip Removed After Complaint To Police

Julian Knight is the chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee.

Senior Conservative MP Julian Knight has had the party whip removed after a complaint was made to the Metropolitan Police, the party has said.

Chief whip Simon Hart removed the Tory whip, meaning Knight is suspended from the parliamentary party and no longer sits in the Commons as a Conservative, after the complaint was made on Wednesday.

Knight is the chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee and has represented Solihull in the West Midlands since 2015.

A spokeswoman for the chief whip said: “Following a complaint made to the Metropolitan Police this evening, we have removed the whip from Julian Knight MP with immediate effect.”

Knight is the latest MP to lose the party whip after they became the subject of an allegation.

Labour suspended Conor McGinn’s membership on Wednesday while a complaint made to his party was being investigated.

The MP for St Helens North, in Merseyside, said he has not been told of the details of the allegation but was “confident that it is entirely unfounded”.