{"id":4292,"date":"2025-04-07T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4292\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:00:12","slug":"labour-suspends-mp-dan-norris-after-arrest-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4292\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour suspends MP Dan Norris after arrest \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norris, a former Labour minister who defeated Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in last year\u2019s general election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/05\/labour-mp-dan-norris-arrested-over-and-child-abuse-allegations\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/05\/labour-mp-dan-norris-arrested-over-and-child-abuse-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Avon and Somerset Police\u00a0said a man in his 60s was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sexual offenses against a girl, rape, child abduction and misconduct in public office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/politics\/dan-norris-arrest-labour-b2728106.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/politics\/dan-norris-arrest-labour-b2728106.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Independent<\/a> reported. He was released on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/labour-mp-dan-norris-arrested-over-rape-and-child-abuse-claims-3vq65s8cd\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/labour-mp-dan-norris-arrested-over-rape-and-child-abuse-claims-3vq65s8cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conditional bail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the offenses are alleged to have occurred in the 2000s but we\u2019re also investigating an alleged offence of rape from the 2020s,\u201d Avon and Somerset Police said in a statement. \u201cAn investigation, led by officers within Operation Bluestone, our dedicated rape and serious sexual assault investigation team, remains ongoing and at an early stage,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Norris, who served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/labour-suspends-mp-dan-norris-after-arrest-13342856\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/labour-suspends-mp-dan-norris-after-arrest-13342856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">junior environment minister<\/a> from 2009 to 2010, hasn\u2019t issued a public statement since the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norris, a former Labour minister who defeated Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1193,33,728,2451,807,2003,2452,12,2453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-4292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-british-politics","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-jacob-rees-mogg","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-law-enforcement","15":"tag-media","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-policing","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114296338710666058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","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=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}