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A leading Welsh supporter of Brexit has taken to wearing a bodycam to deal with the intimidating behaviour suffered by MPs outside Parliament.

Monmouth Conservative MP David Davies said he had been sworn at and called “scum” and said he would put video evidence on YouTube if there were further incidents.

Concern about threats to public order have soared ever since Anna Soubry, a Conservative champion of a second referendum, was called a “Nazi” by chanting protesters.

Mr Davies, who chairs the Welsh Affairs committee, appealed to fellow Brexit supporters not to engage in intimidation.

Describing the behaviour he has experienced while doing interviews on College Green outside Parliament, he told the BBC: “I and presumably many other MPs have been subject to a lot of abuse when we’ve been doing interviews here.

"In the last couple of interviews I’ve done I’ve had people threatening to come and find me – ‘We know where you live’ – people in my face swearing at me, I’ve been called scum, I’ve had flagpoles shoved near my face...

“It’s interesting that only since it started happening, totally unacceptably, by some alleged far right thugs towards some other MPs now suddenly it’s become common knowledge but we all know [and the BBC knows] this has been going on for at least a year now.”

The bodycam is to guard against 'malicious allegations'

(Image: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

Explaining why he chose to wear a bodycam, he said: “That’s there for evidential purposes because as I walk down here now on a regular basis I will be subject to abuse and to threats... [If] I have to push objects away from my face as I’ve had to do I don’t want people making malicious allegations that I have grabbed them...

“I’ll use it whenever I walk up and down to College Green now.”

Mr Davies defended the right to protest but urged Brexit supporters not to engage in abusive acts.

He said: “People in favour of Brexit feel strongly as I do. People who are against Brexit feel strongly about it – and people have a right to legitimately protest...

“I’m not for one minute suggesting that shouldn’t happen... I would say to anyone who supports Brexit as I do, please do not lower yourself to these levels of behaviour because when the public look on – the public are fair-minded people whether they are for or against [Brexit] – they see that sort of behaviour and they are absolutely repelled by it, so those people who are calling Anna Soubry a Nazi or whatever, they are not doing any favours to the pro-Brexit cause.

“I cannot condemn their behaviour enough. If the pro-EU people want to behave in the same way, which they sometimes do, I’m going to record it and I’ll stick it on YouTube and we can see and judge them for ourselves.”

Cardiff South and Penarth Labour MP Stephen Doughty coordinated the sending of a cross-party letter, signed by more than 50 MPs, to Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick that warned of a “deteriorating public order and security situation”.