MP Bob Stewart wins appeal against racial abuse conviction

The politician Bob Stewart has had his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence quashed.

The MP for Beckenham, who surrendered the Conservative whip last November while he appealed, had his conviction overturned at Southwark crown court on Friday.

Stewart, 74, was convicted in November after telling an activist to “go back to Bahrain” during an argument outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in December 2022.

He had…