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Suspended Labour MP Jared O’Mara says he’s “delighted” to be returning to work, a month after scaling back his duties on medical advice.

The Sheffield Hallam MP, who defeated Nick Clegg in June’s General Election, had the party whip withdrawn in October, after a string of misogynistic and homophobic online comments were revealed.

In early December, the 39-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, announced he would not be attending Parliament on the advice of his doctors.

But he said he would be “serving his constituents in other ways.”

Today, the Mirror can reveal he is set to return to Westminster. Mr O’Mara told the Mirror he will be resuming his duties, both in Parliament and his constituency in a “phased return”, with immediate effect.

He said: “I am so pleased to be returning to work. Last June I was incredibly proud to have been elected the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and I am now delighted to be moving forward and able to represent my constituents.”

A Labour Party spokesman confirmed today that Mr O'Mara remains suspended from both the Party whip and his Labour membership pending an investigation into his conduct.

If he returns to the Commons before the party's disciplinary panel makes a decision, he will sit as an independent MP.

Mr O’Mara is the only new MP from the 2017 intake who has yet to make a maiden speech or ask an oral question in the House of Commons.

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Mr O’Mara officially returned to work last night (WED), by voting in the House of Commons for the first time in three months.

He was seen receiving a hug from Labour MP Tracy Brabin as he walked through the chamber during a vote in the report stage of the EU Withdrawal bill.

It comes a day after reports in a local newspaper that journalists visiting his office in Sheffield Hallam found he was not there on Friday, the day he usually holds his constituency surgeries.

Mr O’Mara resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee in September and apologised after a string of derogatory comments he made about women and gay men, some from more than a decade ago, when he was in his 20s, were unearthed online.

He was later hit by claims from a constituent who said he called her an "ugly bitch" in his Sheffield nightclub in March last year.

Comments made by O’Mara include referring to gay people as “fudge packers” and “plotters” on a forum dedicated to singer Morrissey.

And he apologised for comments which emerged earlier, where he suggested jazz musician Jamie Cullum should be raped to death with his own piano and that he would like to have an orgy with Girls Aloud.

He also claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol "because she was fat."

Labour suspended him in late October, pending an investigation from the party’s Membership Disciplinary Procedures panel.