Veteran Tory MP Bob Stewart cleared of racist abuse

A Tory MP accused of racially abusing an activist from the Middle East has told a court how his family tried to adopt an Arab boy they found in the desert when they were living there. Bob Stewart, 74, abused Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House building on 14 December last year while the politician he was attending an event to mark the National Day of Bahrain. Alwadaei accused Stewart of selling himself to the government of Bahrain. Stewart…