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Conservative MP David Warburton has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital after allegations about him were made in a newspaper. His wife Harriet said he has been admitted with severe shock and stress following allegations in the Sunday Times, the BBC reports. The MP for Somerton and Frome was suspended from the Conservative Party on Saturday pending a parliamentary investigation into his conduct. The Telegraph said Parliament's Independent Complains and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) had received a report claiming the MP had behaved inappropriately, but that he had denied any wrongdoing.

A Tory MP who has been suspended from the party over sex and drugs allegations could have been targeted as part of a 'sting' operation, senior party sources have claimed. David Warburton, the MP for Somerton and Frome, is being investigated by the parliamentary harassment watchdog after a detailed series of images, audio recordings and messages emerged implicating him in unwanted advances to women and the use of Class A drugs. One picture, which was circulating on Westminster messaging groups and has been obtained by The Mail on Sunday, shows Mr Warburton next to what appears to be lines of...