Controversial MP Mark Latham has been escorted by police from a venue at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.

Latham was asked to leave by management during the Epsom Day racing event on Saturday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Australian Turf Club said, but he refused.

Police approached Latham in the Grandview Restaurant, where he debated officers for a short time before police escorted him from the venue about 2pm.

Latham is not allowed on the racetrack after he resigned his ATC membership amid an investigation into his alleged verbal abuse of a club official at Rosehill Racecourse in April, the ATC spokesperson said.

Latham entered the racecourse as a guest of another member and walked through the Chairman’s Club, the racecourse’s high-end enclave where Racing NSW chief executive

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