A Conservative MP has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence after a complaint from an activist.
Bob Stewart, who represents Beckenham, was charged over an incident outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in December.
The Metropolitan Police said: "Robert Alexander Stewart, 73, a Member of Parliament, of Beckenham, Bromley, was charged by postal requisition on Monday June 5 with:
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