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A fresh bullying row has engulfed the Tories after an MP was accused of launching voicemail rants at a staffer on sick leave.

And Lucy Allan’s former campaign chief has called for her to resign over recordings left on a young caseworker’s phone.

The messages accused 26-year-old Arianne Plumbly of “very odd” behaviour and suggested she may have a drink issue.

In a separate conversation Ms Allan, 51, is heard raising her voice as she tells Ms Plumbly: “We all know you’re not ill. We’ve seen a pattern of it.

“We’ve seen exactly the pattern, I know how it works. You’ve taken three days off once a month for four months.

“The 17th of July, ‘I’ve got nausea’. You don’t not turn up for nausea. What planet are you on?

“Anyway, forget it, it doesn’t matter, we don’t need to see you again, I don’t need to see your doctor’s note.”

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During another exchange, when told Ms Plumbly would need four weeks off sick, Ms Allan said: “Right. I’m not paying you for that. It’s ridiculous. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

“Who do you think you are? You are on a temporary contract. You are not protected by the law.

"You do not have 12 months service. If you sign yourself off sick for four months the only option will be to dismiss you.”

When Ms Plumbly also said she did not want to be on benefits, the MP replied: “Well then work, you silly girl! I’m not accusing you of anything.

"I’ve had enough of it. I actually have a life too, okay? And you have p****d, p****d around on my life. You’ve made it incredibly difficult.”

Katie Woodland, 32, who was Ms Allan’s campaign manager for six months from September 2014, told the Mirror: “She should resign.”

She added: “I’ve never been treated with so little respect. She just barrages you with insults and screaming at you and shouting at you. She just doesn’t stop.

“She is controlling and narcissistic and the only person that exists to Lucy is Lucy.”

Ms Allan could not be reached for comment on Thursday, despite several attempts by the Mirror to do so.

But written statements were provided by her to the Evening Standard.

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They said: “Arianne Plumbly was dismissed from her ­employment with Lucy Allan, MP in Telford, after four months’ employment, for gross misconduct following misuse of the Parliamentary email system, persistent unauthorised absenteeism, refusal to follow a reasonable instruction and ­rudeness to residents.

“Katie Woodland walked out of her employment with the Conservative Party. She has never been employed by Lucy Allan MP.”

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The Mirror has heard ­voicemail messages in which a voice alleged to be the MP’s could be heard berating Ms Plumbly for not phoning to say she would be off sick.

One message said: “I don’t know you’re, if this is some sort of alcohol problem or whatever it is, but it’s not a very good excuse because actually it was a cough. A cough that went nauseous.”

Ms Plumbly denied all wrongdoing, saying she kept in touch with Ms Allan via text and had no drinking problem.

She told the Mirror how she broke down in tears after enduring months of abuse.

She started as a volunteer in September 2014 but claimed the MP told her not to work on polling day “because I was so useless”.

Ms Plumbly took on a full-time job after Ms Allan won Telford for the Tories in the May General Election.

Her relationship with the new MP improved for a couple of months but events came to a head when Ms Plumbly said she had flu and asked for time off sick.

She said Ms Allan called her a “stupid little girl” and “pathetic”.

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Ms Plumbly added: “She said if I didn’t come in she’d fire me, then when I came in she said, ‘What are you doing here?’

"I received the letter saying I had been dismissed for my time off ill, even though I had a doctor’s note. She said she didn’t care and that legally I had no ­argument, and that was it.”

Ms Plumbly complained to party bosses about Ms Allan and a second was made by Ms Woodland.

Ms Plumbly said she was forced to go public after Tory HQ staff were “slow and unsympathetic”.

A Tory spokesman said: “As soon as these complaints were made they were dealt with appropriately and sympathetically.”

This is the latest row to engulf Ms Allan, who added the words “unless you die” to a Facebook post reproducing abuse she claimed she had received over her vote to bomb Syria.

She insisted the threat was real but had been taken from a separate conversation.

A Conservative spokesman refused to comment on Ms Allan’s alleged ­behaviour towards Ms Plumbly.

The latest allegations come after chiefs were accused of failing to deal with claims against “Tatler Tory” Mark Clarke, which he denies.

A storm after the suicide of bullied activist Elliott Johnson forced ex-chairman Grant Shapps to quit and has led to calls for current chairman Lord Feldman to do the same.

What Allan's 'rants' said

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Extracts from voicemails which Arianne Plumbly claims are from MP Lucy Allan: