‘F**k off and lose weight!’ Labour MP barred from Westminster bar after foul Brexit rant

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Remainer Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, shocked MPs and Westminster staff in the famous bar when it reopened for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic last week. Witnesses said the staunch Remainer launched an expletive-laden rant at a Labour aide who suggested the party got it wrong about Brexit.

The aide reportedly said Labour could have been spared its disastrous election defeat in 2019 if the party had taken a different approach to Brexit.

Mr Coyle then allegedly startled everyone in the bar by yelling: “F**k you! What are the benefits of Brexit?”

He was also said to have shouted: “Are you f**king insane?”

After Tory backbencher tried to intervene, Mr Coyle allegedly said: “F**k off and lose some weight”.

Mr Coyle was also accused of a separate row in the Strangers’ Bar the following day.

Now sources have said the Labour MP has been temporarily barred from all bars in both the Commons and the Lords pending an inquiry.

The House of Commons said there was “zero tolerance for abuse or harassment” within Parliament.

The spokesperson said: “Parliament’s Behaviour Code makes clear the standards of behaviour expected of everyone in Parliament, whether staff, members of the House of Lords, MPs or visitors.

“The Behaviour Code is supported by the Independent Complaints and Grievances Scheme (ICGS), which provides for the investigation of complaints of bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct.”

A Labour spokesperson said the party “expects the highest standards of behaviour from all of our MPs and takes any allegations of this nature very seriously”.

Mr Coyle’s rant comes as the long-awaited Sue Gray report criticised Number 10’s “excessive” alcohol culture.

The report said: “The excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate in a professional workplace at any time.

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“Steps must be taken to ensure that every government department has a clear and robust policy in place covering the consumption of alcohol in the workplace.”

The report was published following the ongoing partygate scandals flooding Downing Street.

Mr Coyle has been a vocal critic of Brexit and in 2020, he was forced to apologise for a tweet.

The now-deleted tweet effectively branded Tory Brexiteers “absolute shtbag racist wnkers”.

This rant came after the BBC planned to only play instrumental versions of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night of the Proms.

Mr Coyle apologised for his comments and said it “fell below standards I set myself as well as those expected of me by constituents and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party”.

Former Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney suggested that Mr Coyle had been “drunk-tweeting”.

Mr Daubney suggested he should spend time thinking “about why the working classes have abandoned you”

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