LABOUR Party MP Neil Coyle was suspended by the party today after he was accused of making racist comments.

The dramatic move came after political journalist Henry Dyer, who is of British-Chinese heritage, said that the member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark had used racial slurs in a Commons bar on February 1. 

The Insider Politics reporter made a formal complaint to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who Mr Dyer said “took immediate action” and banned Mr Coyle from parliamentary estate bars for six months.