Tory vice chair Ben Bradley forced to apologise again over historic blog backing police brutality
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Tory vice chairman Ben Bradley has been forced to apologise for a second time after further offensive comments he made online in the past emerged last night.
The Times revealed that in a 2011 blog Mr Bradley encouraged police brutality during the London riots.
He wrote: “We need to come down hard on these morons before somebody gets killed!
“If we have any sense as a nation we’ll stay home tonight and make it easy for the police to find the ones hanging around town centres with their faces covered.
“For once I think police brutality should be encouraged!”
This come after a previous online post was uncovered in which he called for unemployed men to have vasectomies to prevent Britain "drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters".
He has since apologised for both remarks and told the Times last night that the language was “inappropriate” and that his outlook on life had changed since marriage and fatherhood.
A senior Tory MP said: “Ben is very nice but he is quite naive and this is embarrassing.”
Number 10 yesterday backed the Mansfield MP, saying he would not be removed from his new role as Conservative vice chairman for youth.
A spokesman said that his apology had been “right thing to do”, and insisted that his views had changed since he wrote the comments.
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