{"id":647751,"date":"2026-06-19T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647751\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:22:14","slug":"mp-cameron-thomas-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-and-coercion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647751\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Cameron Thomas arrested on suspicion of assault and coercion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats said: &#8220;Cameron Thomas MP has had the party whip suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Allegations of this nature are extremely serious, and it is important that the police are able to investigate properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are unable to comment further while the police investigation is ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas, 43, previously served as a RAF officer and has been the MP for Tewkesbury since the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He continues to sit as an independent MP, although the BBC understands his Parliamentary access has been temporarily revoked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats said: &#8220;Cameron Thomas MP has had the party whip suspended pending the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}