Daniel Kawczynski was found to have been “repeatedly rude, aggressive and impatient” towards staff as they wrestled with a technical problem that prevented him from attending a digital committee meeting in April 2020.

He was forced to make an apology in the House of Commons on Monday.

However Kawczynski, the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham since 2005, actually told BBC Radio Shropshire before his statement that he was only apologising because he had "no alternative" and would face further sanctions if he refused.

He has now been referred back to the standards commissioner as a result of the interview amid concerns that he undermined his own apology.

So why is he in the news again?

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Kawczynski also told BBC Radio Shropshire about his plans to work on a book about emotional intelligence with an expert, after discovering the subject for the first time at the age of 49.

Kawczynski said: "There’s a wonderful lady in the constituency who taught emotional intelligence to senior air vice marshals for many years. She came to see me at the start of this crisis and she could see that I was under pressure, and was feeling rather down, and she said I want to teach you about emotional intelligence.

“I was very sceptical to begin with, but so profound has our interaction been with one another that we’re now writing a book together on emotional intelligence and politics.”

In the interview, Kawczynski claimed the sanctions process that forced him to apologise had been designed to "control MPs".

He claimed that at the time of the incident, Brexit and local issues in his constituency had put him under great stress as well as the fact that he's very recognisable because of his height.

Standing at six foot nine, Kawczynski said the commissioner told him during the investigation “because I’m a giant, if I’m saying something negative to somebody else, then it puts them under pressure".

According to Kawczynski, they recommended that he ask anyone he wants to be critical of to first sit down with him so that they are both at the same level.

Kawczynski appealed the recommendation that he should offer an apology for his outburst, arguing that it would be bad for his mental health. The panel rejected his appeal.

What other scandals has he been involved in?

Far-right conference

Last year he faced calls to be suspended after speaking at a far-right conference with the likes of Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and Italy's former deputy PM Matteo Salvini.

Labour accused him of associating with "anti-Semites, Islamophobes and homophobes" but Kawczynski called the party's reaction "hysterical".

"I am not Hungarian or Italian and both leaders have been elected on huge popular mandates in their countries," he wrote in The Spectator. "They represent serious ideas and concerns, some of which are shared by people in Britain."

Abolish the Welsh Senedd

He also called for the Welsh Senedd to be abolished last May saying that his blood was boiling as they refused to follow England in easing lockdown restrictions around travel.

Saying that his constituents were being prevented from "going across the frontier" into Wales to get to their nearest beach.

He said: "I am sorry but the time has come to reach out as Conservatives to large numbers of like-minded citizens in Wales who like us believe in one system for both nations.

"We must work towards another referendum to scrap the Welsh Assembly and return to one political system for both nations - a political union between England and Wales."

Inaccurate claims about Second World War

In early 2019, Kawczynski tweeted: "Britain helped to liberate half of Europe. She mortgaged herself up to eye balls in process. No Marshall Plan for us only for Germany. We gave up war reparations in 1990. We put £370 billion into EU since we joined. Watch the way ungrateful EU treats us now. We will remember."

Britain helped to liberate half of Europe. She mortgaged herself up to eye balls in process. No Marshall Plan for us only for Germany. We gave up war reparations in 1990. We put £370 billion into EU since we joined. Watch the way ungrateful EU treats us now. We will remember.

— Daniel Kawczynski (@DKShrewsbury) February 2, 2019

However, he was informed by many that Britain did in fact benefit from the Marshall Plan, receiving about 20% of the $12 billion given to rebuild economies in western Europe.

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The Marshall Plan was a 1948 US initiative which would have been worth more than $100bn in today's money.

Despite thousands of replies, he said that the money was not "aid" but a "commercial loan".

A lecturer in international politics at Aberystwyth University,  Dr Warren Dockter, made clear that "Dan is categorically wrong about the Marshall Plan".