AN MP has taken to wearing a bodycam outside the Houses of Parliament to protect him from “abuse” and “malicious allegations”.

Brexit-backing Monmouth MP David Davies says he has started wearing the camera on his chest after being sworn at and called “scum”.

And the Tory politician says the bodycam is for “evidential purposes” and any abuse he catches on video will be put on YouTube.

The subject of MPs suffering insults and intimidation on College Green, where many TV interviews take place, made headlines last week when anti-Brexit Tory MP Anna Soubry was called a ‘Nazi’ by right-wing protestors during an interview and the Speaker called for tougher police action.

Mr Davies said there had been abuse on both sides of the debate, and if Remain protestors abused him he would expose their actions.

“I, and presumably many other MPs have been subject to a lot of abuse when we’ve been doing interviews here,” he told the BBC outside Parliament. “In the last couple of interviews I’ve done I’ve had people threatening to come and find me – ‘We know where you live’ – people in my face swearing at me, I’ve been called scum, I’ve had flagpoles shoved near my face.”

While the “totally unacceptable” action of “alleged far-right thugs towards some other MPs” had been heavily publicised, Mr Davies said “we all know, and the BBC knows, this has been going on for at least a year now.

“The bodycam’s there for evidential purposes because as I walk down here now on a regular basis I will be subject to abuse and threats... [If] I have to push objects away from my face, as I’ve had to do, I don’t want people making malicious allegations that I’ve grabbed them.

“I’ll use it whenever I walk up and down to College Green now.”

He defended the right to protest, but urged Brexit supporters not to resort to abuse.

“People in favour of Brexit feel strongly as I do. People who are against Brexit feel strongly about it – and people have a right to legitimately protest...

“I’m not for one minute suggesting that shouldn’t happen... I would say to anyone who supports Brexit, as I do, please do not lower yourself to these levels of behaviour because when the public look on – the public are fair-minded people whether they are for or against it – they see that sort of behaviour and they are absolutely repelled by it, so those people who are calling Anna Soubry a Nazi or whatever, they are not doing any favours to the pro-Brexit cause.

“I cannot condemn their behaviour enough. If pro-EU people want to behave in the same way, which they sometimes do, I’m going to record it and I’ll stick it on YouTube...

“Some protestors are deliberately trying to goad people into reacting then showing edited footage. On one occasion after having my way blocked and a flag on a wooden pole pushed towards my face, I thought I was about to be assaulted and I was then maliciously accused of “squaring up” to the person.”

The MP also tweeted: “Nigel Farage spent years being subject to the sort of abuse received by Anna Soubrey and Kay Burley last week.

“There was no outcry, no debate in the press and no promise from the police to take action.”