TORY vice chairman Ben Bradley has been forced to issue a further apology after further offensive comments he made online in the past have emerged.
His latest remarks to have surfaced encouraged police brutality and were written in a blog in 2011 about the riots in London happening at the time.
They come just days after comments came to light in which he suggested men who are out of work should have vasectomies.
He said these procedures would prevent Britain "drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters".
Today apology relates to the comments he made on the protests.
He wrote: "We need to come down hard on these morons before somebody gets killed!.."If we have any sense as a nation we’ll stay home tonight and make it easy for the police to find the ones hanging around town centres with their faces covered.
"For once I think police brutality should be encouraged!"
He has apologised for both remarks and told the Times last night that the language was “inappropriate” and that his outlook on life had changed since marriage and fatherhood.
Number 10 has backed the Mansfield MP, saying he would not be removed from his new role as Conservative vice chairman for youth.
A spokesman said that his apology had been “right thing to do”, and insisted that his views had changed since he wrote the comments.
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