A Tory MP who has been suspended over sex claims and the use of Class A drugs once expressed his fury at youngsters being exploited by county lines gangs.
David Warburton, a married dad-of-two, is facing allegations of climbing naked into a woman's bed and groping her breasts - after snorting cocaine.
An image emerged showing the MP for Somerset and Frome sitting next to an upturned baking tray with four lines of powder on it – alleged by the Sunday Times to be cocaine.
Party bosses withdrew the whip from Mr Warburton while he is under investigation by Parliament’s harassment watchdog.
He previously called for international action in “tackling the drugs trade” in the Commons.
Back in 2018, Mr Warburton questioned then Home Secretary Sajid Javid : "The Children's Commissioner estimates that at least 46,000 children in England have been targeted by drug gangs and coerced by intimidation, violence and criminal incentives into the so-called county-lines system of selling drugs across the country.
"What work is being done by my Right Honourable Friend's Department to address this appalling exploitation of children and young people?"
Mr Warburton allegedly snorted “line after line after line” of the drug at the home of a younger woman he met through politics. She says she was drunk and wanted him to leave after the early hours episode.
As she sobered up, she claims she emerged from her bedroom to find Mr Warburton naked, the Sunday Times reported.
A spokesman for the Conservative Whips Office said: "David Warburton MP has had the Conservative Party whip removed while the investigation is ongoing."
It means Mr Warburton will sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons.
