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A Tory MP was last night accused of “physically intimidating” a comedian who was interviewing him for a BBC TV show.

Comic Luisa Omielan claims Shipley MP Philip Davies “shoved” her and slammed his office door to stop her leaving, after demanding she hand over the camera filming the interview.

Ms Omielan says she grabbed the camera, burst out of Mr Davies’ office and ran out of the nearest fire escape.

Mr Davies, she says, accused the comic of having a “Corbynist agenda for the BBC”, and was dismissive during the exchange.

Ms Omielan was filming for her BBC Three series, Politics for B*****s, which tackles political topics “breaking it down for the audience.”

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The BBC describe the show as “Part sexy Question Time, part documentary and part comedy gig”.

In a Facebook Live video posted moments after she left Mr Davies’ office in Westminster’s Portcullis House, Ms Omielan said she had introduced herself to the Tory MP as someone who knew little about politics.

But she says she expressed surprise that someone from Yorkshire could be a Tory MP.

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In a Facebook post, she wrote: “I asked him about how he sits with the country when it feels divided with Brexit , NHS cuts and homelessness.

“He blamed homelessness on addiction and mental health issues and demanded my facts and figures for NHS cuts.

“His mic wasn’t working at which point he pulled it off and started calling me names, most of which were “you extreme left wing Corbynista with a BBC agenda’”

She says she assured him she was interested in his perspective, but he continued to be “dismissive.”

The argument came to a head, she said, when they came to the issue of cuts to the NHS.

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When Ms Omielan’s mother died last summer, she was critical of her NHS treatment - saying she had been “failed at every turn”.

When Mr Davies asked Ms Omielan for “proof” that there had been cuts to the NHS, she says she became upset and told him about her mother.

Ms Omielan said Mr Davies had said “well I’m sorry to hear that but look at the figures,” turning to his computer and looking up NHS funding figures.

“He could not show any empathy or humanness,” she said. “I’m telling him my personal experience and he wants to use numbers to show he is right.”

She went on: “He then asked for the camera and tried to come and get it. Instead I grabbed the camera and told him he’s not having it and left the office.

“I accidentally pushed by his assistant at which point Phillip Davis got in front of the door and slammed it so I couldn’t get out and shoved me a little.”

She said she called Mr Davies a “d******d” and ran out of the office with the camera.

Philip Davies said: "I have no faith that the Daily Mirror will accurately report what I say."

He declined to comment further.

The Mirror approached the BBC for comment.

Sir Lenny Henry replied to Ms Omielan’s story on Twitter, saying: “Damn. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

“How come no one had a piece of two by four in order to settle my man down a lickle?”