Yorkshire MEP Bashir ‘taking legal advice’

YORKSHIRE MEP Amjad Bashir is speaking to lawyers about the allegations thrown at him in the wake of his weekend defection from the UK Independence Party.

Mr Bashir’s decision to switch to the Conservatives was accompanied by an announcement from his former party that he had been suspended as a Ukip member over “unanswered financial and employment questions” and allegations of interference in candidate selection.

Speaking as he travelled to Brussels for the first time as a Conservative MEP, he told The Yorkshire Post he had joined a “proper political group where you can actively take part in politics rather than shirk from your duty”.