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- Coyle told a British-Chinese journalist he looked "like you've been giving renminbi" to a politician who received money from a suspected Chinese spy.
- Labour has suspended the whip pending an investigation.
Labour has suspended the whip from an MP after Insider revealed that he had made racist comments towards one of its reporters.
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, made the comments to Insider's Henry Dyer at one of Parliament's bars.
The pair had been discussing Barry Gardiner, another Labour MP whose relationship with lobbyist Christine Lee had come under the spotlight after she was identified by MI5 as a possible spy. Gardiner had employed her son and received donations from Lee.
During a conversation in the Strangers' Bar inside the Palace of Westminster, Coyle said Gardiner was being "paid by Fu Manchu," Dyer said.
Coyle then told Dyer he looked "like you've been giving renminbi to Barry Gardiner", Dyer said.
On Friday morning, a Labour spokesperson said: "The Labour Party expets the highest standards of behaviour from all our MPs and we take allegations of this sort very seriously.
"Accordingly the chief whip has now suspended the Labour whip from Neil Coyle pending an investigation."
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