Sobbing activist says Russell Brand stripped to his ‘budgie smugglers’ and pushed her down on a hotel bed

A political activist told how Russell Brand pushed her down on a bed and assaulted her after a Labour Party conference event. Brand, 51, stripped down to his ‘budgie smuggler’ pants when he went back to the woman’s hotel room after they met at a stage show he had performed in. The woman, then in her 20s said: ‘He raped me,’ adding: ‘He wanted to have sex that night, and I was there.’ Prosecutors have described Brand as a ‘ruthless…