{"id":1035876,"date":"2026-06-19T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1035876\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:48:22","slug":"south-west-mp-suspended-by-party-in-response-to-police-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1035876\/","title":{"rendered":"South West MP suspended by party in response to police investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is understood he was arrested on Wednesday night<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Generic picture of a police officer\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_Lincoln-City.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Generic picture of a police officer\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Generic picture of a police officer(Image: Chris Vaughan\/Lincolnshire Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A South West MP has had the whip suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation, a party spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Cameron Thomas, aged 43, was arrested by Gloucestershire Police on Wednesday night, it is understood. His office has been contacted for comment, reports the Press Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: &#8220;Cameron Thomas MP has had the party whip suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We are unable to comment further while the police investigation is ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Mr Thomas&#8217; party membership is also understood to have been suspended.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cameron Thomas is the MP for Tewkesbury\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1_Cameron-THomasjpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Cameron Thomas is the MP for Tewkesbury\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Cameron Thomas is the MP for Tewkesbury(Image: Laurie Noble Photography\/Parliament)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The former RAF officer has served as MP for Tewkesbury since the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is understood he was arrested on Wednesday night Generic picture of a police officer(Image: Chris Vaughan\/Lincolnshire Echo)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[17542,381,748,188,393,4884,11518,285,16,15],"class_list":["post-1035876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-armed-forces","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116774497372591007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}